Originally Posted by RSBen
Originally Posted by MWF
There was a recent case like this in Stoke. A lad called Jacko was sent down when a Fiesta racing on the A500 crashed and people were killed. That was a very debatable case.
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Yes but wasnt that lad driving the car that the people were killed in?
Not in the case I am talking about. In this one the lad 'Jacko' (Steven Jackson) was driving a 200sx and reported an accident where a red Fiesta had come off the road at speed. The police has suspicions that Jackson had been racing the Fiesta and unearthed CCTV footage of his car leaving Festival Park before reporting the accident. They calculated his average speed from the time on the CCTV footage and his phone call and concluded he'd been speeding. They then added this to eye witnesses reports claiming they saw him racing the Fiesta.
Due to the evidence against him he was advised (wrongly imo) to plead guilty to the charged and thus was imprisoned.
Despite his guilty plea to speeding he continues to protest he played no part in Fiestas crash.