No jail for uninsured hit-and-run driver
Lincolnshire driver escapes prison after leaving biker seriously injured then torching his car to hide evidence
A MALE DRIVER who seriously injured a motorcyclist in a road collision, before fleeing the scene then setting fire to his car to hide the evidence, has escaped a prison sentence.
Earlier this week, Lincoln Magistrates' Court heard how Kerry Miles Pick, 25, ran a red light in Broadgate, Lincoln, before colliding with the biker. Realising the seriousness of his actions, Pick then fled the scene before deliberately torching his car.
The motorcyclist, whose name has yet to be released by Police, sustained a broken knee, ankle and arm.
In court, Pick pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention, no insurance, no MOT test certificate and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
But Magistrates chose not to hand down a custodial sentence as Pick had entered an early guilty plea. Instead he'll get a high level community order.
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Wow. What a deterrent.
Posted: 16/06/2009 at 11:06
And if we get caught speeding on an open road with nobody else in sight, we can end up in jail if the speed is high enough. The real pity of this sort of crap is that erodes respect fopr the law and its agents.
Posted: 16/06/2009 at 13:14
Didn't some biker who was racing a car get two years? The car hit somebody and killed someone. The biker was infront and just kept going. Seems the American plea bargin system is alive and well here.
Posted: 16/06/2009 at 15:09
I thought this kind of crap only happened in the US.... I was hoping that in the UK the courts were more enlightened when dealing with motorist running down motorcyclist... Sadly, I guess I was wrong...
Posted: 17/06/2009 at 01:22
again  we put up with crap and just try harder 
Posted: 17/06/2009 at 19:16
THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE SENILE DECREPID OLD FUCKERS THAT ISSUE STUPID PUNISHMENTS FOR CRIMES . YEH SPEEDING = JAIL. KILL SOMEONE WHILE ON YOUR MOBIL, FOR AN MP = SUSPENDED SENTENCE THIS WANKER THE SAME , SENILE DEMENTURE IS A BIG PART IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT .
Posted: 31/08/2010 at 17:34
Vigilante time or what.
Not really..you and other seniile decrepid old fucker abpve appear to have failed to spot that the thread is 18 months old..so a bit late in the day 
Posted: 31/08/2010 at 21:16
YEH SPEEDING = JAIL. KILL SOMEONE WHILE ON YOUR MOBIL, FOR AN MP = SUSPENDED SENTENCE
Which MP killed someone while on a mobile and got a suspended sentence? 
Posted: 01/09/2010 at 08:05
Shit... I'm a bit late here, but WTF!?!?! I can't even think of anything to say, apart from WTF?!?!?! Bloody ridiculous...
Posted: 17/11/2010 at 10:02
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