limeyphil:
There is no evidence he was texting at the time of the accident. The press have made a meal of it as usual.
For all we know the texting was done 30 minutes before the crash.
The car driver drove up the inside into his blind spot. That should carry points and a fine.
Don’t be such a knob he pleaded guilty. He should have got life
switchlogic:
limeyphil:
There is no evidence he was texting at the time of the accident. The press have made a meal of it as usual.
For all we know the texting was done 30 minutes before the crash.
The car driver drove up the inside into his blind spot. That should carry points and a fine.Good idea, then the dead driver could have been fined and had points applied.
You talk some tripe. Sometimes, just sometimes truck drivers deserve what they get. The way you go on no truck driver is ever at fault. Texting or not, his actions killed two people, and that’s what he was jailed for.
LIKE
summerley82:
limeyphil:
There is no evidence he was texting at the time of the accident. The press have made a meal of it as usual.
For all we know the texting was done 30 minutes before the crash.
The car driver drove up the inside into his blind spot. That should carry points and a fine.Firstly I can’t stand it when vehicles undertake as it’s dangerous and annoying but as a hgv driver he should have expected that to happen, you sit in lane 2 loaded and hit a hill it’s gonna happen!
Secondly they can find out exactly when texts were received or sent, it’s not rocket science.
Thirdly you have complete and utter [zb] for brains, learn to read and pipe down.
LIKE
The Poor buggers were on their way to the airport to celebrate their anniversary abroad, makes you want to weep 
FarnboroughBoy11:
Deleted because I was talking out of my arse.
No change there then. 
davepenn54:
3I had seen the report of this terrible fatal accident on the internet and thought it might have been Stoneywood doing the recovery and by sheer coincidence I had gone down into town to pay my Council Tax and saw the flashing orange light’s in the distance. It wasn’t until the IVECO tow truck got close that I realised it was the Mercedes pulling a blue container that gone over on the M62 West Bound.
I hadn’t gone out of my way to catch these pics but just for once I had time to get my camera out of my bag and grab a few quick shots.
Regards
Dave Penn;
Correct. The Actros and trailer sat in Stoneywoods yard for quite a while afterwards. It’s amazing how many local serious accidents they pull into their yard. Some horrifying sights.
A lorry driver who was either reading or writing a text on his phone
I talk some tripe? Or just don’t jump on the whiter than white band wagon.
He was either reading or writing a text. Surely he can’t be doing both. That’s guess work and an assumption, It isn’t evidence. If you got a summons saying you was doing 40 or 50 in a 30 zone it would be laughed out of court.
There are two sides to every story, and usually several alternatives to a newspaper article.
It’s a terrible shame that the car driver and his wife are not here to tell their side. I bet most of you lot would have a very different attitude.
Your attitudes would also change if it was a tipper, a stobart lorry, an irish lorry, and god forbid an irish lorry driven by a pole, that poor sod would be looking at 500 years on a trucknet trial.
Dafman:
summerley82:
limeyphil:
There is no evidence he was texting at the time of the accident. The press have made a meal of it as usual.
For all we know the texting was done 30 minutes before the crash.
The car driver drove up the inside into his blind spot. That should carry points and a fine.Firstly I can’t stand it when vehicles undertake as it’s dangerous and annoying but as a hgv driver he should have expected that to happen, you sit in lane 2 loaded and hit a hill it’s gonna happen!
Secondly they can find out exactly when texts were received or sent, it’s not rocket science.
Thirdly you have complete and utter [zb] for brains, learn to read and pipe down.
LIKE
I’m fully aware that they can find out when a text was sent or recieved.
Like the article says “He was either reading or writing a text”. Surely they would know which one it was.
Contraflow:
FarnboroughBoy11:
Deleted because I was talking out of my arse.No change there then.
I know, I think some of your posts in the road rage thread rubbed off on me
Addendum:
Ethen Roberts was driving from Grimsby to Burnley when
the accident happened shortly before 0600.
After the collision he was found by witnesses bleeding in the cab of
his vehicle and on the phone to his boss.
The judge said he accepted Roberts had not set out that day to kill
or injure anybody and that his remorse was genuine. But it was a
seriously aggravating feature that he was in the habit of texting
while driving, he said.
Peter Horgan, for Roberts, told the court he had been driving HGVs
for 13 years, doing an average 30,000 miles a year without a problem.
“He accepts that on occasions he did make and send text messages.”
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limeyphil:
A lorry driver who was either reading or writing a text on his phone
I talk some tripe? Or just don’t jump on the whiter than white band wagon.
He was either reading or writing a text. Surely he can’t be doing both. That’s guess work and an assumption, It isn’t evidence. If you got a summons saying you was doing 40 or 50 in a 30 zone it would be laughed out of court.There are two sides to every story, and usually several alternatives to a newspaper article.
It’s a terrible shame that the car driver and his wife are not here to tell their side. I bet most of you lot would have a very different attitude.
Your attitudes would also change if it was a tipper, a stobart lorry, an irish lorry, and god forbid an irish lorry driven by a pole, that poor sod would be looking at 500 years on a trucknet trial.
You really a mentally challenged ■■■■■ I have never in all my years on the Internet and on various forums ever put anyone on my ignore list, so congratulations you are the first.
daleyboy:
limeyphil:
A lorry driver who was either reading or writing a text on his phone
I talk some tripe? Or just don’t jump on the whiter than white band wagon.
He was either reading or writing a text. Surely he can’t be doing both. That’s guess work and an assumption, It isn’t evidence. If you got a summons saying you was doing 40 or 50 in a 30 zone it would be laughed out of court.There are two sides to every story, and usually several alternatives to a newspaper article.
It’s a terrible shame that the car driver and his wife are not here to tell their side. I bet most of you lot would have a very different attitude.
Your attitudes would also change if it was a tipper, a stobart lorry, an irish lorry, and god forbid an irish lorry driven by a pole, that poor sod would be looking at 500 years on a trucknet trial.You really a mentally challenged [zb]. I have never in all my years on the Internet and on various forums ever put anyone on my ignore list, so congratulations you are the first.
Couldn’t agree more! slimeyphil must be in love with the hgv driver, might have been sending him text messages at the time he killed 2 people…
I wonder if the TC will ever let him get another LGV licence …
Me mentally challenged.
Read what is written in the article. There is no proof that he was in the wrong. You can’t read and write a text at the same time. 
limeyphil:
A lorry driver who was either reading or writing a text on his phone
I talk some tripe? Or just don’t jump on the whiter than white band wagon.
He was either reading or writing a text. Surely he can’t be doing both. That’s guess work and an assumption, It isn’t evidence. If you got a summons saying you was doing 40 or 50 in a 30 zone it would be laughed out of court.There are two sides to every story, and usually several alternatives to a newspaper article.
It’s a terrible shame that the car driver and his wife are not here to tell their side. I bet most of you lot would have a very different attitude.
Your attitudes would also change if it was a tipper, a stobart lorry, an irish lorry, and god forbid an irish lorry driven by a pole, that poor sod would be looking at 500 years on a trucknet trial.
Why would it be different if it was a Stobart, Irish etc exactly? Most pople here think he didn’t get long enough, so why would that change? Do you think what you’re writing or just wrote in pre prepared cliches?
Oh and haven’t you entered the world of smart phones yet? You can read and write messages at the same time…
limeyphil:
There is no evidence he was texting at the time of the accident.
Apart from the phone log…
ROG:
I wonder if the TC will ever let him get another LGV licence …
Has limeyphil had his revoked? The world is truly a safer place.
I did a ‘crash course’ last Monday which saved me from getting 3 points. It’s the same as speed awareness but for other offences, most were there for phone use (me) or driving without a seatbelt.
They played a clip and an interview of a lorry driver that had crashed head on into a van killing the driver while he was talking on his hands free. This guy got 5 years at featherstone and the family of the lad that got killed wished death on him. The impact and devastation it has on everybody involved really is incredible.
Certainly makes me think twice when the phone rings even if using hands free.
(I was caught with the phone in my hand plugging it into the hands free for the self righteous on here. Still a fair cop.)
limeyphil:
There is no evidence he was texting at the time of the accident. The press have made a meal of it as usual.
For all we know the texting was done 30 minutes before the crash.
The car driver drove up the inside into his blind spot. That should carry points and a fine.
Not only had he received a text 1 minute before the accident he had a history of texting whilst driving.This wasn’t a one off event it was considered acceptable behaviour by the driver. The fact he hadn’t had an accident early is more by luck than judgement.
There were also witness who testfied to his driving standards.
Bottom line is he admitted he was wrong, because he was wrong and the evidence backed that up.
Had he been paying attention to what was going on around him he would have realised that traffic was catching him up and passing on the nearside. I wouldn’t pass a truck on the nearside but then I try and drive defensively due to the number of numpties out there.
What he did was wrong.
Firstly I can’t stand it when vehicles undertake as it’s dangerous and annoying but as a hgv driver he should have expected that to happen, you sit in lane 2 loaded and hit a hill it’s gonna happen!
You may not be able to stand it but I bet you have done it lots of times when traffic in the other lanes is backing up.