Daisy Abela: “I was not drunk, and nor was it a hit and run”

There's always one! Think you get my sentiment though - the driving test needs to be more expansive and a fair bit harder.

https://www.gov.uk/alcohol-young-people-law

Quote:

However if you’re 16 or 17 and accompanied by an adult, you can drink (but not buy) beer, wine or cider with a meal.

I was taught that is was cider or perry. But that was a long time ago. Yours, in pedantry

At 17 they can't have a pint but are allowed to take charge of a car on the road after passing a test that only covers the bare minimum of skills required to do so. Doesn't really make sense does it?

The driver's attitude is common enough: a combination of being aggresive behind the safety of a car window while resenting anything that may even slightly hold up her progress. A negative attitude can even be seen sometimes in the approach of Courts and among police in such matters.

The law does not provide sufficient protection for cyclists - the Highway Code is too "soft". Unprotected cyclists are also too soft when colliding with metal. Proper legislation is needed, creating strict liability or equivalent when motorists hit cyclists. It does not happen because the motoring lobby is far more powerful and ultimately carries more clout.

Emma Way, who Abela seems to have mimicked, left the scene of an accident in May, having negligently hit another cyclist. That is pretty serious even if the chap was lucky enouigh not to be seriously injured. The Court should send a strong message of disapproval in dealing with this matter and the cyclist should sue her.

Unwittingly she has put a spotlight on this whole issue of posturing motorists who dislike the idea of anyone apart from them using the road. Time for change...

We almost got run down by a white van hurling abuse at us on a clubrun yesterday, apart from the abuse all we really noticed was the smell of weed coming out of the vehicle.
Shame this country is full of such twats isn't it.

Driving Miss Daisy needs to grow the fuck up and stop blaming others for her own trolling, ignorant and self-entitled behaviour.

Words fail me

And for me that's saying something. I think putting want-to-be drivrrs on a bike ant them to ride through town appeals to me, but just how practical it would be ....... ?

cycling should become part of the driving test (tricycles allowed for those that can't ride on two wheels), that way all drivers will have a sense of the vulnerability of being on a bike in traffic.

I used to say a bunch of stupid stuff when I was younger, thankfully no twitter or facebook around. Hopefully this is just a bad case of immaturity, we'll see what happens with the police investigation and if someone comes forward like last time.

Lie, deny, cry

2 out of 3 so far?

It's sad that these lasses are becoming vain zombies living their life through 'social media', with their faces clued to a phone screen most the time. I think the whole thing de-sensitizes them to the real world. Ironic really.

Driving isn't some game Daisy, it's being responsible for a 1 tonne+ metal box that can easily quash people. Those people, there just the other side of the windscreen.

Yeah. So a cyclist veers in front of them, a row ensues and he swipes off the wing mirror. And so rather than tweet about what arseholes cyclists are and what the prat did, you tweet you hit someone while drink driving. A very natural reaction. Not.

I don't believe a word either of these 2 girls says.

Simple solution really, stick her on a bike, make her cycle around London, at rush hour..
Then we'll see if her next tweet is so damning of "cyclists".

Another stupid and unknowingly dangerous little girl with absolutely zero care for others or having sense of responsibility. She should be forced to commute for 100 hours on a bike. And teens wonder why their car insurance is so high.

Not nice, whatever way you look at the statement made on Twitter.

"I did not realise this conversation would end up public" - Daisy, meet the Internet. Internet, this is Daisy.

according to her statement they over took a GROUP of cyclists, suggests lots of witnesses?

Has the cyclist been identified? One of the incriminating things in the Emma Way case was the cyclist's (and his team-mates') account of the incident.

She got caught out and is now desperately backtracking. It'd be interesting to see if her friends would be willing to repeat these stories in a court of law.

Either way, her 'clarification' shows how remarkably dense she is. "I thought the conversation was between me and a friend". It's the social media, stupid.

Interesting, is Robyne Frew a credible witness, considering she was hammered out of her mind the night before and the next day at 1.53 pm she tweets that she is still hammered.

"lol I'm still drunk it hasn't wore off yet"

https://twitter.com/RobyneBFrew_x/status/363628691227967488

to NorthEastJimmy

best comment on this forum in a while
well said
angry angry people....everywhere

If she didn't actually "purposely run him over" then isn't she the troll? And she has the nerve to call those angered by her claim to have run over a cyclist "trolls". What a stupid twat.

I actually hate this country! I'm embarrassed to be part of the cycling community and ashamed that I drive a car. We're all in a vicious circle of hatred that's never going to get resolved. When I can move abroad I will.