MRA wants tougher crash penalties
Driver gets off too light, says MaggsThe Motorcycle Riders Association (MRA) has complained that courts are continuing to fail crash victims.
Following a collision in November that has left a motorcycle rider in a coma for the past eight months, a 77-year-old driver was fined $200 without conviction and lost his licence for a month.
Despite the police claim that the offender was remorseful, he still asked for his licence not to be suspended.
"This does not sound to us as if there was any real remorse, MRA President Dale Maggs said. "There is a continuing pattern of offenders who cause death or serious injury to motorcyclists being released with a slap on the wrist."
Police estimate that the rider's speed was between 30 and 50 km/hr when the driver pulled out in front of him.
Maggs said that, as a bare minimum, where this sort of incident occurs, the offender's licence should be cancelled and the offender obliged to go through retesting and a probationary period.
He also requested that any road crash causing serious injury or death should automatically carry a dangerous driving charge at a minimum.
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