Archive for the ‘Motoring & Driving News’ Category

Tougher Sentences for Hit and Run Drivers demanded

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

A petition signed by 5,000 people asking for tougher sentencing for hit-and-run drivers was presented to the House of Commons by Jeff Ennis, MP for Barnsley East and Mexborough. It is calling for a change in the law to raise the minimum sentence for hit-and-run drivers who kill to be raised to 14 years.

Pedestrian Killed while Driver Answers Mobile

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

A driver has been jailed for two years after killing an 80-year-old pedestrian, Dorothy Andrews while trying to answer her mobile phone. Anne Foster-Chia was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving at Sheffield Crown Court and banned from driving for two years