[Matra et Alpine]

By Visordown News

No prison sentence, fined £200, ordered to pay £60 costs and a £15 victim surcharge - is this what we call justice?

A WOMAN who killed a motorcyclist after swerving her car into him whilst reaching for a tissue in her car's passenger door compartment has been banned from driving for just six months. According to reports in today's Telegraph newspaper, Lisa Badham-Moore, 35, veered into oncoming traffic when she took her eye off the road to reach for the tissue.
She ploughed her Vauxhall Astra into Laurence Higgins, 54, who was riding his motorbike, killing him.
Badham-Moore admitted driving without due care and attention at Spalding Magistrates' Court.
After the case Mr Higgins' widow, Kay, 47, who had tried unsuccessfully to have the case taken to the High Court, said she was outraged by the sentence.
She said: "I'm disgusted with both the charge and the sentence because justice hasn't been done.
"Her barrister said she has got to live with this for the rest of her life, but she's not the one living in a house without her husband.
"A lot of people try to portray motorcyclists as being speed freaks, but Laurence had been a motorcyclist for 30 years on and off and had never had an accident. "He was driving very carefully, and that was confirmed by someone he had overtaken just before." Badham-Moore, of Gedney in Lincolnshire, was also fined £200 and ordered to pay £60 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Argh! Bikers are demonised in the UK as exceeding speed limits, dangerous riding etc etc and some numpty gets away with NOT paying attention whilst in control of a lethal "weapon"