• Fireman admits killing farmer with herd of cows and vehicle horn.
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-11990507[/url] [quote]A fireman has admitted causing the death of a farmer who was crushed by his herd of cows after they were startled by fire engine sirens. Julian Lawford pleaded guilty at Exeter Crown Court to causing the death of Harold Lee by careless driving. Mr Lee, 75, was trampled to death as he walked the cows along a country road near his home in Burtle, Somerset, in August last year. Lawford, 49, from Glastonbury, had been due to stand trial. The fireman, who lives in Boundary Way, pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter and causing death by dangerous driving, but admitted the lesser charge which was accepted by the prosecution. Richard Smith QC, defending, told the court: "Such a plea reflects that he drove his fire engine forward with its lights flashing with the herd in front of him, which caused them to act as they did, causing the death. "This plea would be acceptable to the Crown Prosecution Service." The incident happened on a B-road near Burtle, on the Somerset levels between Glastonbury and Burnham-on-Sea, at about 1520 BST on 11 August last year. Mr Lee had been moving a herd of 100 dairy cows from a field towards their milking parlour at Robins Farm. He was airlifted to Royal United Hospital in Bath with serious head and chest injuries, before being transferred to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, where he died six days later. The judge, Mr Justice Roderick Evans, adjourned the case until Monday, when Lawford will be sentenced. He told Lawford he was not considering an immediate custodial sentence and released him on conditional bail.[/quote] An interesting situation to say the least, but does the fireman really deserve prosecution? I think not.
If he was driving to a fire then he shouldn't be prosecuted but if he did it with the intention of of scaring the cows then he can rot in prison for all I care.
That sucks, how can he be prosecuted for something he is obligated to do.
[QUOTE=Acesarge;26689584]If he was driving to a fire then he shouldn't be prosecuted but if he did it with the intention of of scaring the cows then he can rot in prison for all I care.[/QUOTE] [img]http://billthe3.net/dvc/mm171/10pics/cows-on-road.jpg[/img] If he sounded his siren at these cows, would you say the intention was to scare the cows? Cows and narrow rural roads rarely play nice.
[QUOTE=Acesarge;26689584]If he was driving to a fire then he shouldn't be prosecuted but if he did it with the intention of of scaring the cows then he can rot in prison for all I care.[/QUOTE] The cows should be locked up
Needs more details. Did he purposely scare them or was he just trying to get them out of the way?
[QUOTE=Prismatex;26689606][img_thumb]http://billthe3.net/dvc/mm171/10pics/cows-on-road.jpg[/img_thumb] If he sounded his siren at these cows, would you say the intention was to scare the cows? Cows and narrow rural roads rarely play nice.[/QUOTE] I mean scaring them just for the sake for the sake of scaring them, not to get them out of the way. If he was on his way to a fire then he did nothing wrong but if he was on his way back from a call and there was no reason to be using the sirens then it is his fault
[QUOTE=Fycix;26689623]Needs more details. Did he purposely scare them or was he just trying to get them out of the way?[/QUOTE] probably both. scare them out of the way..many people do that when animals are on the road. just in this case they freaked the fuck out
That's what happens when you don't pay the $75 of "protection" money
Remind's me of "Cars"
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