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Cumbrian driver hit wall after drunk grabbed steering wheel
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Author:  StuartW [ Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:55 am ]
Post subject:  Cumbrian driver hit wall after drunk grabbed steering wheel
“Steaming drunk” West Cumbria woman grabbed steering wheel during taxi journey

TAXI passenger who grabbed the vehicle’s steering wheel during a West Cumbria journey has been sentenced by a judge.

Lucy Dobbin, 29, was said to have been “steaming drunk” while travelling with another intoxicated woman on January 5. “Agitated and distressed”, Dobbin mistakenly believed the car was speeding, and grabbed the wheel on the A595. The driver was able to avoid colliding with an oncoming vehicle but his vehicle crashed into a wall as he tried to regain control.

Dobbin was sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court after admitting causing a danger to road users by interfering with a vehicle. She also admitted assaulting a 15-year-old girl outside a Whitehaven pub in March when she was drunk again.

After hearing mitigation and details of Dobbin’s recent “real and proven progress” with a professional organisation, Judge Barbara Forrester suspended a five-month jail term for two years. Dobbin, of Westmorland Road, Hensingham, must also complete rehabilitation and a three-month night-time curfew.

Judge Forrester said of the taxi crime: “You are very fortunate nobody was seriously injured.”
Author:  Sussex [ Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cumbrian driver hit wall after drunk grabbed steering wh
She should have been charged with attempted murder.

:sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:
Author:  edders23 [ Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cumbrian driver hit wall after drunk grabbed steering wh
Sussex wrote:
She should have been charged with attempted murder.

:sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:



I agree
Author:  bloodnock [ Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Cumbrian driver hit wall after drunk grabbed steering wh
So in the event of a cars perceived speeding the safest option is to grab the steering wheel and crash the car....what a cunning plan. :roll:
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