im not saying the guy should not use his cossie on the road im just sayin he should take more care when driving!

here is more about the case, the guy just drove like a nob all the time by the sounds of it and saw nowt wrong with his driving.

A 23-YEAR-OLD motorist whose dangerous driving caused an 80mph smash in which two people died has been jailed for five years.

Minutes before the fatal crash, one witness said he saw Matthew Scott drive past him in pitch-black conditions on the A596 “like a Formula One” racing driver.

At Carlisle Crown Court last Friday, it emerged that Scott, a former UCB Films worker, was banned from driving in 2002 for speeding.

Magistrates imposed a three month ban after he drove at 79mph on the A596 and reached 60mph while driving through Flimby village, where the limit is 30mph.

Jailing Scott, Judge Barbara Forrester told him: “You didn’t learn any lesson from that.

“It appears that you paid no heed to it at all.”

The apprentice electrician, who was rushing to get to the cinema in Carlisle, smashed his Ford Sierra Cosworth into a Subaru car which was turning into a side road at Highscales near Aspatria.

The impact sliced the Subaru in half. Back seat passengers Steve Harrison, 35, and his sister Liz Haughan, 40, died at the scene from terrible injuries.

Scott, of Yew Tree Farm, Westnewton, near Aspatria, denied two counts of causing death by dangerous driving on October 8, 2004, but a jury convicted him.

During his trial, Scott claimed that he had not seen that the Subaru was indicating to turn right.

The jury heard harrowing details of the tragedy, the aftermath of which was seen by several close relatives of the two people who died.

Mr Harrison and Mrs Haughan, a racehorse owner, had been on their way back from a day out at Carlisle races.

With them in the car was their brother Willy Harrison, who suffered a broken pelvis, collapsed lung, and broken ribs. He spent months in hospital.

Mrs Haughan’s sister Judith Williamson and other relatives were in a car behind and were the first on the scene.

Judge Forrester told Scott: “It is clear from the police who gave evidence that had you been going at 60mph, or within the speed limit, the Subaru would have had time to complete the manoeuvre safely. I’m satisfied your speed on that road in those conditions was greatly excessive.”

She added: “I am concerned that your attitude throughout the trial was that there was nothing wrong with your driving.”

Throughout the events that followed the crash, the bereaved relatives of the victims had conducted themselves with dignity and stoicism, said the judge.

In mitigation, Ron Mitchell said that references written for Scott showed that he did feel remorse for what happened. They described him as a “good man” who had worked hard to achieve good vocational and academic results.

Judge Forrester disqualified Scott from driving for six years and ordered that he pass an extended driving test before he was allowed to drive again. She imposed two concurrent five-year jail terms for each offence of causing death by dangerous driving.

Scott will be eligible for release on licence after he has served half the sentence.