little-ginge

Following on from the Gerrad thread, and the incident a while back where a footballers dangerous driving killed a family, itseems these so called sporting 'stars' still think they can do pretty much anything.. what an example they are setting to others..

Footballer arrested after Christmas Day crash that killed father-of-five - Telegraph

jasey

On the face of it seems like an accident that could really happen to anyone not paying full attention to driving .

spireite

agreed

Floodboy

this story is only in the paper because the guy is a footballer. Whilst never condoning dangerous driving, im sure there were other crashes, some unfortunatly fatal, over the xmas period that the papers have decided not to publish a report of.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Yes, terrible but it doesn't reek of ego driven selfishness, just stupidity as practiced by a fair proportion of society, like that stupid girl that killed someone whilst texting.

ScoobyDriverWannabe

I know they are in the spotlight due to their job & the money they earn but the papers do make a meal out of them.

Like that video they released of mcormick from when he was notified in police custody one of the kids had died. If it wasn't for him being a footballer that would never have been released.

Not defending the bloke hes in the right place now & it was a disgrace he drove in the state he did.

scoobynutta555

Not much to add, but a different newspaper reported him using a mobile at the time of the crash............

EDIT

Looks like might have been an ipod.

Footballer arrested over crash which killed father-of-five was 'changing songs on iPod' while driving on M1 | Mail Online

scoobynutta555

Yes, however, the guy is in the public eye and therefore newsworthy.

Jamie

Do you do the crossword in that paper wtb

unclebuck

Exactly. Who cares?

Leslie

It appears that he allowed himself to be distracted by operating his Ipod and the result is that another man died.

Footballer or not, that puts the blame in his court and he deserves a significant sentence if found guilty.

Les

jasey

Hmm - the other guy could have been off his head on drugs driving down the wrong side of the road for all we know !

If we're going to start throwing away the keys because people get distracted when driving then the jails are going to need to be much bigger !

scoobynutta555

If you take a life through irresponsible behaviour then you should be held accountable. End of.

Leslie

I find it difficult to believe that you can make a post like that!

Les

jasey

You prepared to have yout taxes doubled to look after all the ***** that can't drive on our roads are you ?

Bring in the death penalty for ***** that take lives no problems - put them up in HMP Hotels at our expense for a few years - no thanks.

jasey

Why ?

The bloke that died could well have been doing something worse than the guy that "killed" him !

Until we know the facts I don't think we should be locking up anyone !

scoobynutta555

I don't really know why you've posted that and quoted me