England: Local moron deliberately blocks-in ambulance, giggles; causing patient death

[Lenny]

'Stupid' driver blocked ambulance

A judge told a driver she displayed "moronic stupidity" by deliberately and repeatedly blocking an ambulance which was carrying a dying patient. Annika Avery, 20, of Leicester, was given a five-month prison sentence, suspended for two years. She had already admitted dangerous driving.

The court was told that Avery overtook the ambulance at speed and slowed down, causing the vehicle to brake suddenly. She did this even though the siren was on, Leicester Crown Court heard. Avery, of Tatlow Road, Glenfield, was said to be under stress at the time of the incident in July 2008, although no other reason was given for her behaviour.

Obscene gestures
In the back of the ambulance a paramedic was giving heart compressions to an elderly patient. Such was the force of the braking that the paramedic was flung the length of the vehicle, the court heard.

The driver of the ambulance said at one stage Avery pulled alongside him and she was travelling at 60mph (96km/h) in a 40mph (64km/h) area. The paramedic said he looked across and saw Avery and a male passenger laughing and making obscene gestures. Judge Howard Morrison called Avery's driving "disgusting and dangerous".

The patient in the ambulance died.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/8098062.stm




http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3876/45916124avery226.jpg
Picture of the giggling ambulance-blocker,
still giggling at something. Whether another
stuck ambulance was the source of her
amusement was unknown at press time:rolleyes:;)

[Äike]

Damn, she definitely isn't sane. Doing such a foul thing is the utmost retarded thing that you can do with a car.

What would she feel, if she would be in an ambulance and in a critical condition, when some retard blocks the ambulance?

And it was funny to her, she must have some mental illness.

[Beorn]

Only five months?! I would be happier to see her serve at least five years and see if that evil giggling is present at the end of it.

[Groenewolf]

yeah, miss it is realy funny when an ambulance has to brake because you are moron behind the steeringwheel:mad:.

My condolences to the family of the eldery patient who did not survive :(.

[Gooding]

yeah, miss it is realy funny when an ambulance has to brake because you are moron behind the steeringwheel:mad:.

My condolences to the family of the eldery patient who did not survive :(.

Same here.:( Only five months??? Why not 25 to life! That was homicide, no?:confused:

[Groenewolf]

That was homicide, no?:confused:

I am no expert in criminal law, only got some basic knowledge of Dutch law. Maybe Sigurd can fill us in.

[Angantyr]

Same here.:( Only five months??? Why not 25 to life! That was homicide, no?:confused:

The law is different from country to country. I would deem it to be criminal negligence causing death, pursuant to section 220 of the Criminal Code of Canada:

Causing death by criminal negligence

220. Every person who by criminal negligence causes death to another person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable

(a) where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of four years; and

(b) in any other case, to imprisonment for life.

R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 220; 1995, c. 39, s. 141.

However, liable to imprisonment for life means just the maximum. There is a minimum of four years if a firearm is involved, but no minimum otherwise. That means, a person could be sentenced to five months here as well.

But, the Gods help you if you call a brown skinned person selling crack on your front lawn "Nigger". You will surely get life for that.

[Atlas]

In France you usually take 20 years for a murder, but you can be freed as early as within the 10 first years.