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lightning



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Defender 110 crash in Wimbledon
Tragically killed a child while crashing through a school grounds. Driver reported for causing death by dangerous driving.

Looks like the Defender went through the fence, across the grass where people were, and into the wall of the building.


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Up-Date

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgy8nm84gyo

Lack of officers delays fatal school crash investigation
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The BBC was once my preferred source of news, but in the last few years I am getting more and more annoyed by all the emotional content blended in every piece of news.

Obviously this is a tragic incident, but frankly the stories interest should be in all the fact (police resources etc), not really the personal suffering everywhere in the article.

Why do I really need to be told about all this personal suffering in every BBC story? Should I feel guilt of or maybe empathy for all those people (whom I don't know) that suffer loss? Why? what does the world gain from that. Is it to make me feel blessed for not loosing MY children to a runaway Land Rover? What are the chanced of that happening.

Or maybe the story is written for the parents, to give them an opportunity to share in their loss, but why them and not other people that suffered a loss? Your loss needs to be publish worthy?

All this emotional content is just wearing down society I think. I stopped reading all of it.
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lightning



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l think the bottom line is, we want to know how the vehicle ended up driving through a fence and across the school grounds.

It has gone quiet since July last year. Did the driver press the gas pedal by mistake? Did she have a heart attack at the wheel? Why did the Land Rover collision avoidance system not intervene?
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There is something lacking in credibility here:

The BBC wrote:
Metropolitan Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said investigators had interviewed more than 150 witnesses, analysed CCTV as well as conducted a forensic analysis of the vehicles concerned and interviewed the driver.


Despite the above, they cannot say what caused it?
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The police have to deal with the facts. If they can not categorically rule out two options: 1. Driver pressed the accelerator, or 2. The vehicle didn't respond to braking, then they can't categorically confirm the cause.

If you mash the brake and accelerator in a random order through panic, I can imagine the emergency braking intervention can be overridden.

I guess that's when a judge/jury need to hear the various different evidences to determine if there's reasonable doubt, or not.
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