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Bowen: Jail dangerous drivers

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SEND THEM TO JAIL!

That’s what president of the Barbados Road Safety Association, Sharmane Roland-Bowen, wants for people found guilty of dangerous driving that causes the death of pedestrians or other motorists.

Her comments came after a man last week admitted to dangerous driving in the death of a pensioner who was using a pedestrian crossing. He escaped incarceration, but was fined $8 500 in the High Court.

Suspended Transport Board driver Clare Ramon Nevero Hinds, of Perfection Road, Bush Hall, St Michael, who admitted to causing the death of 89-year-old Edna Sandiford on March 3, 2012, has a year to pay the fine, or face 12 months at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds. (BA)

Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

 

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