To be fair, IF they were all riding like bell-ends looking for a place to crash, and if the bloke who died with his wife on board was just the unlucky one who got the good news first, then they can't blame anybody if they are prosecuted. I'd like to think that this isn't about the speed per se, but about the manner of the riding. You know the sort of thing - undertaking at 60mph over the speed of traffic, crossing double whites, overtaking through junctions and over blind crests, knee down round blind corners, yadda yadda. The bottom line is, if they were all riding in the same manner, and one of them died from it, then they've all got a significant struggle on to prove that they weren't riding dangerously. I absolutely didn't agree with the attempt to pin the dead couple's death on the rest of them, but as far as I can see, the guys who have pled not guilty to riding dangerously are either going to have to show that they weren't riding in the same way the bloke who died was riding, OR that they were riding the same way he was, but that the way the guy who died was riding was fine, and had nothing to do with his death.
Good luck with Plan B. Leaving Plan A, where they have to explain why they were making good safe but illegally fast progress, while there were a couple behind them literally killing themselves trying to keep up... it might be true, but you'd better have some kind of independant evidence if you are going to convince a jury...
Posted: 12/09/2012 at 17:53
