"I just don't care" texting Aussie driver tells police after injuring cyclist

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defense counsel Tony Robinson said that she had decided to drive because she was going to lose her license anyway

That's a defence?

kie7077 wrote:

The two cyclists he hit were on a footpath and wearing helmets when he ploughed into them.

Of course if they weren't wearing helmets then it would have been their fault if they died (sarc)

I suppose that's another argument against cycling on the footpath - it still doesn't keep you safe from motorists.

Though it seems as if there are few places, short of an aircraft in flight, where you _are_ safe from maniac drivers (see the 'car crashes through wall of house' stories)

PS - posted this on the wrong 'killer driver' thread. But the point remains.

She has the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. Or maybe brain damage. Or just unbelievably stupid and selfish. She should be in a mental hospital. She should certainly at the very least be banned from driving forever. She is a danger to the public.

Purely evil criminal mentality at its worst. I suspect she might have other convictions or will have if she doesn't change her behaviour and attitude.

Not just in the UK where sentencing does not reflect the seriousness of the offence then,

What a c*nt she must be. Miserable sentence, reasonable fine though.

Oh my. This story only gets worse.
As a start, her ban should begin now, and count nine months from when the cyclist has made a full recovery.
And if he doesn't recover, well then, she never gets her license back. I maybe she should become his (minimum wage paid) personal chauffeur.
There's no link in the sentencing between the seriousness of what she did, her total lack of contrition, and the fact that she's clearly a danger to any road user, pedestrian, animal, inanimate objects...

Society's response to this incident is shameful. Moreover I note that when cycling around my home area of the Leman Basin, France / Switzerland, I frequently see people driving with a mobile phone held to their ear. It's illegal but clearly the prosecutions are not frequent enough or sufficiently costly to deter the wrong-doers.

Scary how many idiots are using their mobile phones whilst driving and are not in control of them or not fully aware of their environment. If they hit pedestrians or cyclists the latter have no chance. Saying that when I last cycled to work I had two near collisions with some chavs that we're using their mobile phones whilst cycling.

I live and ride in the same town as this girl.

I say town, there is less than 3,000 of us.

To say the least, I am not overly enthused about riding on the same road as her in nine months time.

Saying that the general community here is outraged.

However a certain class (read sub-class) of people like her don't give a shit about anyone else.

I think she should have been banned for 9 years.

When she was caught drink driving she should have been banned for life.

For those of us in the UK, there's comfort in the idea that road.cc had to go right to the opposite end of the earth to find this idiot driver story and, hopefully, it indicates that, today at least, there's no worse behaviour between here and there!

How half full is that glass, it's almost at three quarters, brilliant!

"Judging by the comments on the original article a lot of people see Aussie sentencing standards as too lenient, same as here."

been living in Victoria for a couple of years now and the thing that surprises me about this case is that the police investigated the collision and the link to texting and the driver was prosecuted rather than just wrote it off as cyclist in the wrong place

Judging by the comments on the original article a lot of people see Aussie sentencing standards as too lenient, same as here.

I think prison is the only choice for twats like this.

Someone should get her in touch with Emma Way - I'm sure they'd have loads to chat about

She should be condemned to walk the prison yard for life.

One can only hope that karma is real and she will be reincarnated as a rock on a horse manure farm. I usually try to see things from the other perspective but she's not making it easy. What a thoroughly unpleasant, narcissistic person. Hope the rider makes a full recovery but with a spine injury that's really difficult. I feel pretty down now.

"The wife of the injured cyclist - who was at the hearing told The Standard she was disappointed that Davis was not banned for longer."

I'm disappointed that Davis was not banned for life.

It gets worse ...

"Defence counsel Tony Robinson said that in the time between the accident and this week’s court hearing Ms Davis was caught drink-driving (.07) and received an infringement notice when she drove her friends to the Gallery nightclub in Warrnambool.

He said she decided to drive that night because she thought she was going to lose her licence anyway because of the collision with the rider."

http://www.standard.net.au/story/2225030/support-flows-for-texting-crash...

I love Aussies! It must be the high-octane mix of low IQ and inability to recognize the consequence of action.

(Which is why I emigrated away)

If she'd have hit my husband, I'd have blinded her, no more texting or driving. Shame she'd still be able to talk.

It's amazing how many of these people are out there.

She's clearly shown that she doesn't give a sh*t about endangering anyone's lives on the road but they're going to give her license back anyway.

Unf*cking believable.