Suspended sentence for hit-and-run driver who knocked child off bike and denied having been in crash

"Defending Mahmood, Neil Howard, said that the driver maintained that she was not to blame for the collision.

“What can be said is that she fully sympathises and is upset by the level of injuries the boy suffered,” he told the court.""

So upset and sympathetic in fact that she stopped down the road to wipe her steering wheel and inspect the car for damage before abandoning it in an alley.

Mr Howard, I appreciate you are only trying to do your job but please do not insult peoples intelligence with crass nonsense like that.

These Oxford jackets look perfect for cycling

We all condemn the driver for her total lack of compassion. Has she claimed for damage to her car?
This type of accident is all too common.
Two stats:-
In collisions between ADULT cyclists and motorised vehicles the driver is at fault about 70% of the time.
In collisions between ALL cyclists and motorised vehicles the cyclist is at fault most of th time.
The difference is of course young cyclists, and riding onto the road is one of the common reasons for a collision.
The answer of course is better infrastructure and more training for both drivers and cyclists, but this will not change a heartless driver into a caring one. After that it comes down to decent sentancing from the courts.
The new highway code may help, but not this week.
 

that's one hard-assed attitude for sure - "looks like we might have hit a kid, expect someone'll find him, let's just check the car and go" " good idea, no looks fine, we've got worse things to worry about". 

How do you look at yourself in the mirror? For how long does " it wasn't/wouldn't have been my fault" hold up? 

Why is the penalty so paltry (as usual)?

Nice! More bothered about your car than you are a kid lying in the road - regardless of it being an accident she drove off and left a kid to die, and so did her husband. Both of them should be slung in prison - you are vile human beings

time to return roads for the passage of road users and not the storge of personal property?

She and her husband took longer ensuring their precious car wasn't damaged than they did making sure a child wasn't dead.

Thats all you can say really. 

“What can be said is that she fully sympathises and is upset by the level of injuries the boy suffered,” he told the court.

She was so sympathetic that she decided to drive off and leave the boy to quite possibly die of his injuries. 

Did not expect small children running or cycling out between parked cars, we use to have a short warning film on the tv all channels years ago showing that very theme. She must have known that there are kids in that area where she lives, how fast was she going, women drivers are just as fast as any man these days. Was she tall enough to see over the bonnet, some drivers are so short they look through the steering wheel so would not see a small boy on a small bike or scooter etc. You have to anticipate accidents sometimes.

It doesn't matter who was at fault, leaving a small child to die in the road is inexcusable, and warrants a prison sentence, loss of licence and a rigorous retest if she wants to drive again.

Her husband who was the passenger should have been the voice of reason.

He could have asked her to stop the car or go back at any time but didnt so was every bit as complicit in the act of driving off as his wife.

Her husband should have also been punished along side her.

Judging by her name. God will hand her down an even harsher punishment when it comes to her meeting him at the pearly gates.

Well that's a disgustingly small sentence for callously not caring even slightly for a person's life and well-being and just leaving them for dead. Leaving the scene should definitely be a prison sentence and preferably a lifetime ban from driving.