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Post by phoenix on Mar 3, 2006 19:03:19 GMT
Just to show the state of the country we live in.
RTA's are no longer called RTA's, they are now called RTC's following a court cast where a police officer referred to an RTA and the defense lawyer jumped on it and said so in your opinion it was an accident and by its very definition my client is innocent, as in an accident no one is to blame. Case thrown out!
Now called Road Traffic Collison, as someone is always to blame.
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KES
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Post by KES on Mar 3, 2006 19:42:04 GMT
Wonder what the one your neck o the woods will be called .
A lorry halfway into its junction all taped off pandas eveywhere the road I had to turn into off the Trafford road Salford . Took a look as I passed and with its front end under the lorry was a police bike did,nt look good hope said rider survived .
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Post by ZRX Gremlin on Mar 3, 2006 20:39:52 GMT
Yet more "politically correct" bullsh*t. I've just looked up the dictionary definition of "accident" and depending on which way you read it, accidents either just happen or more than likely, are caused. None of that changes the "facts" which I was lead to believe is what the courts are supposed to deal in. The defense lawer was obviously a clever bloke and lucky to get away with it. Had that have been me, I'd have thrown the book at him. The Oxford English Dictionary.
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Post by bernard on Mar 3, 2006 20:47:50 GMT
:brick: :mut:
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Post by SHE-REX on Mar 4, 2006 11:51:27 GMT
is this because accidents aren't intentional and collisions are
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Post by lightspeed on Mar 6, 2006 17:03:01 GMT
Don't think anyone "intends" to collide (at least not those with a sound mind) any more than they "intend" to cause an accident. Stupid people do cause a lot of accidents and collisions, though.
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Post by madmoggy on Mar 6, 2006 20:36:07 GMT
House of Lords defines it as "an unintended occurrence having an adverse physical result" Just trips off the tongue, doesnt it? I noticed yesterday that the local police now have "Collision & Incident Investigation" on their vehicle, rather than "accident investigation"
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