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  • BMW driver banned from roads after seriously injuring cyclist in crash

    From swldxer1958@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 29 01:23:58 2023
    A 'CARELESS' driver has been banned from the roads after crashing into and seriously injuring a cyclist.

    Max Retburg had been driving towards the crossroads at Stocks Lane and Well Bank Lane in Over Peover on August 9 last year when the collision occurred.

    The 37-year-old BMW driver, of Knutsford Road, Chelford, crashed into the cyclist at around 8am.

    The cyclist, a 55-year-old man from Macclesfield, suffered broken ribs, a broken arm and a haematoma.

    Retburg was charged with causing serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving and pleaded guilty when he appeared at Crewe Magistrates Court on Wednesday (July 26).

    Taking his plea into account, magistrates disqualified Retburg from driving for 12 months and ordered him to complete 80 hours of unpaid work.

    He must also pay court costs of £120 to the Crown Prosecution Service and a surcharge of £114.

    https://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/news/23685562.bmw-driver-banned-roads-seriously-injuring-cyclist-crash/

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to swldx...@gmail.com on Sat Jul 29 09:19:56 2023
    swldx...@gmail.com <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
    A 'CARELESS' driver has been banned from the roads after crashing into
    and seriously injuring a cyclist.

    Careless…I suspect you mean ‘banned from driving’, as he will continue to be free to use the roads to walk, bicycle, or electric-motor bicycle about.

    Max Retburg had been driving towards the crossroads at Stocks Lane and
    Well Bank Lane in Over Peover on August 9 last year when the collision occurred.

    The 37-year-old BMW driver, of Knutsford Road, Chelford, crashed into the cyclist at around 8am.

    The cyclist, a 55-year-old man from Macclesfield, suffered broken ribs, a broken arm and a haematoma.

    Retburg was charged with causing serious injury by careless or
    inconsiderate driving and pleaded guilty when he appeared at Crewe Magistrates Court on Wednesday (July 26).

    Taking his plea into account, magistrates disqualified Retburg from
    driving for 12 months and ordered him to complete 80 hours of unpaid work.

    He must also pay court costs of £120 to the Crown Prosecution Service and
    a surcharge of £114.

    https://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/news/23685562.bmw-driver-banned-roads-seriously-injuring-cyclist-crash/

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    Spike

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  • From swldxer1958@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 29 02:42:47 2023
    QUOTE: Retburg was charged with causing serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving and pleaded guilty when he appeared at Crewe Magistrates Court on Wednesday (July 26). ENDS

    Fessing up early doors = slap on the wrist for seriously injuring an innocent man.

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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to swldx...@gmail.com on Sat Jul 29 12:10:55 2023
    On 29/07/2023 10:42 am, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:

    QUOTE: Retburg was charged with causing serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving and pleaded guilty when he appeared at Crewe Magistrates Court on Wednesday (July 26). ENDS

    Fessing up early doors = slap on the wrist for seriously injuring an innocent man.

    "Innocent" of what, and how do you know (other than on a benefit of the
    doubt basis)?

    After all, as a chav-cyclist on a chav-bike, he's statistically quite
    likely to have broken traffic laws pertaining to one-way street, No
    Entry signs, footways and traffic lights many times.

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to swldx...@gmail.com on Sat Jul 29 11:26:59 2023
    swldx...@gmail.com <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
    QUOTE: Retburg was charged with causing serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving and pleaded guilty when he appeared at Crewe Magistrates Court on Wednesday (July 26). ENDS

    Fessing up early doors = slap on the wrist for seriously injuring an innocent man.

    Recently, a chap was released from prison after serving 17 years, most of
    which was because he didn’t fess up.

    The only snag is that he didn’t do it, being finally exonerated after DNA available at the time of his arrest was finally tested.

    Oh, and also because the organisation that was supporting him had to go to court *twice* in order to force the Greater Manchester Police to disclose documents that proved his innocence but which were withheld, for reasons
    best known by the people involved, from his trial.

    Fessing up early doors isn’t always a good strategy, even if grievous suffering is heaped on you for doing so. I hope he takes those in authority
    to the cleaners.

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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to Spike on Sat Jul 29 12:30:55 2023
    On 29/07/2023 12:26 pm, Spike wrote:

    swldx...@gmail.com <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:

    QUOTE: Retburg was charged with causing serious injury by careless or
    inconsiderate driving and pleaded guilty when he appeared at Crewe
    Magistrates Court on Wednesday (July 26). ENDS

    Fessing up early doors = slap on the wrist for seriously injuring an innocent man.

    Recently, a chap was released from prison after serving 17 years, most of which was because he didn’t fess up.

    The only snag is that he didn’t do it, being finally exonerated after DNA available at the time of his arrest was finally tested.

    Oh, and also because the organisation that was supporting him had to go to court *twice* in order to force the Greater Manchester Police to disclose documents that proved his innocence but which were withheld, for reasons
    best known by the people involved, from his trial.

    Fessing up early doors isn’t always a good strategy, even if grievous suffering is heaped on you for doing so. I hope he takes those in authority to the cleaners.

    Hear, hear.

    And I say that as a supporter of the police.

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  • From swldxer1958@gmail.com@21:1/5 to swldx...@gmail.com on Sat Jul 29 05:34:45 2023
    On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 10:42:49 AM UTC+1, swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
    QUOTE: Retburg was charged with causing serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving and pleaded guilty when he appeared at Crewe Magistrates Court on Wednesday (July 26). ENDS

    Fessing up early doors = slap on the wrist for seriously injuring an innocent man.

    Have the gammons hanged that poor man for a crime he did not commit yet?
    Get Priti Patel and 30p Lee on the case.
    They'd like hanging brought back.

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