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in loving memory of a wonderful son, carl john ferguson 23-06-87 to 18-03-06. rip. xxxxxxxxxx
HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY FOR MONDAY. YOU SHOULD BE HERE CELEBRATING WITH US. LOVE YOU ALWAYS AND FOREVER MUM. XXXXX
FOR ALL YOU KIND PEOPLE WHO SENT ME COMPLETED PETITIONS REGARDING DRINK DRIVING, THIS IS THE RESPONSE FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP. DAWN. XXXX
Government issue response to Online Petition
The UK Government have responded to the online petition by issuing the following statement:-
'Courts in England and Wales have powers under the Bail Act 1976 which can be used to prevent a person charged with a road traffic offence from driving whilst awaiting trial.
A court may decide to grant bail, but only under certain conditions. This could include a requirement that the defendant should not drive prior to the court hearing. Should a bail condition be broken, the defendant would be liable to immediate arrest. In making its decision, the court must consider all the circumstances of the case that appear to be relevant. It is widely accepted that the courts are in the best position to weigh up all the relevant factors, taking account of prosecution submissions, which in turn are largely based on the recommendations of the police.'
In an immediate response, Dave Malcolm from Campaign4Carl and rememberingfergy said:-
'This response from the Prime Minister's office does not surprise me, and it clearly shows that Government have clearly ignored the fundemental issues surounding the campaign.
As we have repeatedly explained to the Government, the issue is not one of whether legislation exsists, it is an issue of whether the current legislation is utilised in a way that makes it effective. Any person who drinks and drives and kills someone does not go to court until the Police have finished their investigation and reccomended a charge be brought. Once they have sobered up, they are released on Bail and are free to leave the Police Station and get behind the wheel of a car - even if they killed someone 24 hours earlier! This Investigation takes many months and the accused driver is free to carry on driving until they go to court. The Police do not apply for an Interim Driving Disqualification - and neither do the CPS. In our case, Jamie Crozier was even free to carry on driving even after he pleaded Guilty - even though he had just finished a previous drink driving ban! The CPS who are supposed to know the Law never bothered to apply for an IDD (Interim Driving Disqualification and claimed to us that Mr Crozier could not be taken off the roads early! What does it take to get the Government to act? We have always said that The Police should have the power to automatically apply for an interim driving disqualification as part of Police Bail conditions but they are not We feel that this is because of Budgetery constraints. We want to know what guidelines the CPS and the Government have issued to Police Forces in regard to I.D.D's , and we want to know why high risk offenders are not being taken off the roads immediately. We want to know why the Government have chosen to ignore the advice of The Institute for Alcohol studies for the past 10 years, and also road safety charities such as CADD and SCARD. We re-itterate our call for compulsary Interim Driving Disqualifications for any driver tested and found to be over the prescribed limit, and we will up the 'Ante' until the Government see's Common Sense and introduces legislation to make this happen. We should not have to campaigning for this, the Government are supposed to lead by example, yet again Offender's rights are taking precedence over the rights of innocent people to be protected - and the sooner the Government realise that this issue is not going away and needs sorting, the better'
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We all wonder each and every day what the day will hold. We know we will have problems, but like always we will survive. We go about our day not thinking about the danger or trouble outside on the roads and highways connecting our towns. There is a danger that is there which in a split second can change the lives of many people.
Imagine you are a mother who has just watched her child that morning leave in her car to go to the store not even giving a thought to the danger which may occur. She goes back in the house and a while later she gets a knock at the door. It is a police officer with the news that your child was just killed in a car accident.
Car accidents happen and are tragic to say the least. In this instance it could have been avoided. The young girl was killed by a drunk driver. Someone who got into a vehicle, thinking they were sober enough to drive. This person thought he saw a car, but the alcohol had blurred his vision. By the time he realized what was happening, it was too late. Someone's child had died, and it was his fault.
Drunk driving is a deadly killer. When a person drinks and gets behind the wheel of a vehicle, they are holding a deadly weapon. They are not just putting their own life in of danger, but that of many innocent people. Every person they pass, get in front of, or behind are in danger.
When I was younger I lost many friends in drunk driving accidents. One of my best friends was killed in an accident where everyone but the driver died. Three died in that crash and not one of them was over 20.
I was in an accident not long ago where a driver rear-ended us. We all made it out unharmed, but the car was totaled. That's fine because cars can be replaced. People can't. I was grateful no one was hurt. The driver of the other vehicle had taken his eyes off the road for a second while we were turning into a gas station. He had not been drinking.
If this guy sober, could cause a bad crash by taking his eyes off the road for a split second, where does that place someone who has been drinking?
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every single day the drivers on our roads make choices and decisions. most of them drive within the law, but some make choices that shatter the lives of many people..
some choose to drive erratically, some choose to get behind the wheel when they have had too much to drink, some choose to speed or race, some choose to show off to other passangers in the car, on the bike etc etc etc..........................................
when we lose a loved one on our roads, the aftermath that is left behind is earth shattering, life changing for the worse and leaves us in limbo for years to come for the needless way in which our loved ones have been taken...........................................
is there any justice in the world? well the law and government says yes, what about the famalies who have lost a loved one due to drink driving, carless driving, etc etc? i think not. yes some of the drivers go to prison, some get off on a technicality some are just found not guilty. prison we think is a place where people who have done wrong are sent to be punished, nah is it heck all that is just a load of political clap trap said by our heads of departments.. ie. department of transport.
please if you can and are interested watch bb2 from 11.30 am on wed 19th march where a polititian from the tories is gunna be asking questions regarding the law and drink driving. the mp is robert goodwill, please set tapes if you not in. i think it will be quite interesting.
it will be 2 years on tuesday 18th march that my son carl was killed by a drink driver.
the killer was sentenced on 20th feb 2007 to 4 years in prison and yesterday i got sent this letter from the west yorkshire probation service which absalutly disgusts me.
dear dawn,
further to my visit to you in june 2007, i am writing to inform you that mr crozier has recently made an application to move into open conditions within the prison system.
if the parole board agree the move, mr crozier will be eligible to apply for unescorted time away from the prison which may include overnight stays.
i will write again in due course to confirm if mr crozier's application has been agreed.
if you would like to discuss the content of this letter of have any concerns in relation to this information please do not hesitate to contact me at the victim services unit on 01924 XXX550.
yours sincerely,
suzy jenkinson
victim services office
on behalf of don johnson.
so what does that say about our justice system?
to me it stinks.
my sons killer has been given a chance to ask to be moved to a low security outdoor prison and may even be rewarded with night and days out.
that is what is happening to people in prison,
just over a year inside and he may get to go on the outsede again, so what was the point in being given a 4 year sentence.
i have today emailed my local tv station, local radio, local press and the sun newspaper. things like this need to be put into a much wider public domain so that other find out about what is happening.
carl did nothing wrong apart from enter a car when it pulled up along side him and he was offered a lift home. i have done nothing wrong, yet i have suffered so much (as i know all of you have) for the last 2 years, now there is a chance of this lad walking the same town as me much much sooner than the judge said.
this site is in memory of all the people who have been killed by drink drivers.
we as famalies would love to be in touch with other bereved famalies to try and work together and help each other at very very sad times in our lives.
please feel free to leave a tribute to your loved ones, or if passing through please light a candle for all those who have been needlessly killed on our roads.
thank you.
this site will be updated very soon with more details
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Stephen David Gunter
On the evening of May 18th, 2001, my beloved uncle, Stephen David Gunter, was crossing in a crosswalk in Largo, Florida, on his way to pick up his girlfriend from work and walk her home. A drunk driver ran through a red light and hit him, throwing him more than 30 feet from the crosswalk. The driver never stopped; just kept going. At 11:39pm, Steve passed away from his injuries. It took many months, but we finally found the driver and had him extradited from home in Canada, and he served 15 months for the vehicular homicide of my uncle.
Stephen would be turning 50 years old this year on September 13th if it had not been for this drunk drivers' carelessness. He tore a hole in our hearts and families, and took a very beloved and kind man from this earth well before his time. Please think before driving if you have been drinking.
BLUE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU
I'll have a Blue Christmas without you
I'll be so blue thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won't be the same dear, if you're not here with me
I'll have a Blue Christmas that's certain
And when that blue heartache starts hurtin'
You'll be doin' all right, with your Christmas of white,
But I'll have a blue, blue blue blue Christmas.
Sung by Elvis Prestly
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♥ Sending Tears to Heaven ♥
I’m sending with you a bottle, that’s filled with tears of love.
To take with you to heaven, to that wonderful place above.
Please take it to the angels, that are in the room of tears,
they’ll pour them in my bottle, where there these words appear.
“Oh how I Love You, and I will miss you very much.
I asked the Lord for you a Kiss, gentle to the touch.
His arms wide open, for a Hug to embrace.
You’ll hear Him say I Love You, and even see His face.
All these things I too will miss and you will never really know.
This bottle filled with tears of love,
not wanting to let you go.”
A Tribute To My Grand-Daughter
My grand-daughter did not have to die at the age of 5. Society puts your family at risk and also the politicians each and every day. My family has suffered through meeting that drunk driver twice during the past 22 years. My brother was left severely brain damaged. His wife had to have her spleen removed, and various pins,rods,and screws hold her shattered arm back together. The drunk driver got 1 week in jail and a 100 hours community service. He was caught drunk driving again 6 months later. My only grand-daughter lost her life in 2006 to a drunk driver and she just turned 5 years of age. My wife her (Grand-Mother) held Megan in her arms, on a lonely back road, on a bank waiting for help to arrive. She was alive and speaking, her last words to her grand-mother was "Grammy I Can Not Breathe." She died in route by helicopter to the hospital. My tribute to Megan and many others would be to stop the drunk driver. Not the drunk but driving while drunk. I put a video on You Tube about Drunk Driving and Megan, her pictures and her song she constantly sang is also on the video. Turn your speakers on and my hope is that you all will visit this site and learn How You Can Stop Drunk Driving.. Its easy and I took the first step. Here is the site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyaKyiugVNE
You Will See Them Someday
� Stephan Banks
when you lose someone it can be hard to take
the pain that you feel when your heart has to break
the memories you keep are all in your mind
as you search your soul for more to find
the way their skin felt the smell of their hair
as you keep thinking over and shedding a tear
the years may pass, memories fade to grey
but your getting no younger you'll see them someday
unconditional love is never forgotten
look deep in your heart it is there at the bottom
alone in the dark sometimes in fear
voices from loved ones your hoping to hear
more years pass, they soon fly by
but your always looked upon from those in the sky
surrounded by clouds and pure white doves
they listen and watch sending you love
just remember one thing as you sit and you pray
they will be there to greet you, you will see them someday.
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to ALL DUI victims and families
i would just like to say, to all the victims and families of these SENSELESS DUI crashes, how very very sorry i am u had to endure such pain and heartache,i couldnt stop crying as i looked through all the pictures, the babies, the children,the fathers,mother's ,aunts,uncles,brothers,sisters,best friends...then i saw my own son, Brandon's picture on there...my heart is aching...the babies and children should be playing,the fathers and mothers should be at home tucking their children into bed,the sisters and brothers should be staying up late at night and having pillow talks about school etc.....and they had their lives taken away by a careless drunk.
my own family was affected by a 3x offender on xmas eve 2005....they all survived..barely,my 3 boys, ages 5,7,and 11 and their father,on their way back to my house,struck head on at hwy speeds.......as i am very thankful to still have them with me...i cannot EVER imagine what it is like to lose my babies...to never be able to hold them again,or kiss them or tuck them into bed.....my heart goes out to all of you,whether u or your family are a survivor,or to any of u who has lost someone dear to you,my thoughts and prayers are ALWAYS with you
sincerely,
nikki riegler and family
courtney
cameron
allison
brandon
dakotah
and their daddy,russell berg
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Why are you crying, a young boy asked his Mom?
"Because I'm a woman," she told him.
"I don't understand," he said.
His Mom just hugged him and said,
"And you never will, but that's O.K.".......
Later the little boy asked his father,
"Why does Mom seem to cry for no reason?".
"All women cry for no reason," was all his Dad could say......
The little boy grew up and became a man,
still wondering why women cry.
Finally he put in a call to God and when God got back to him, he asked "God, why do women cry so easily?"
GOD answered......
"When I made woman,
I decided she had to be special.
I made her shoulders
strong enough to carry
the weight of the world, yet,
made her arms gentle enough to give comfort...
I gave her the inner strength
to endure childbirth
and the rejection
that many times will come
even from her own children.
I gave her a hardness
that allows her
to keep going and take care
of her family and friends,
even when everyone else gives up, through sickness and fatigue without
complaining....
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all
circumstances. Even when her child has hurt her badly....
She has the very special power to make a child's boo-boo feel better and
to quell a teenager's anxieties and fears....
I gave her strength to care for her husband, despite faults
and I fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart....
I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but
sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him
unfalteringly....
For all of this hard work,
I also gave her a tear to shed.
It is hers to use
whenever needed and !
it is her only weakness....
When you see her cry,
tell her how much you love her, and all she does for everyone, and even though
she may still cry, you will have made her heart feel good.
She is special!
MADELEY DAUGHTER ON DRINK DRIVE CHARGE
Chloe Madeley was a presenter on her parents' show
The daughter of TV stars Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan has been charged with drink-driving after her car overturned in north London.
Chloe Madeley, 22, was arrested after a crash in Barnet, north London, in the early hours of Sunday.
Police found a Peugeot 206 on its roof after it apparently hit a parked Mini. No one was at the scene.
Police traced Miss Madeley as the owner and she was arrested at her parents' home in north London.
She is on bail and will appear at Hendon Magistrates' Court on 2 September, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said.
Miss Madeley worked as a showbusiness reporter on the chat show, New Position, which was hosted by her parents.
She has also presented Big Brother's Big Mouth and posed for FHM magazine.
Chat show couple Richard and Judy ended more than two decades on television in July when they hosted their final show on satellite channel Watch.
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