Brake: Recent Episodes
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Working to prevent road deaths & injuries, supporting people bereaved or injured in crashes. Backs sustainable transport. Runs #RoadSafetyWeek.
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Brake is campaigning for better #RoadsToJustice for the victims of road crashes and their families. It's for people like Bryony Hollands. 19 year old Bryony was killed by a drink and drug driver while she was walking along a pavement. Thomas Burney was given an eight-year prison term last October for causing death by dangerous driving. He will be automatically released after serving just half of that sentence. Please sign our petition to force the government to look again at charges, sentences and early release in cases of criminal driving. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/156369
Brake has launched its #RoadsToJustice campaign. It's because of people like Paul Flanagan and the family and friends he left behind when he was killed in a crash by a "careless" driver. He was doing 60mph in a 40mph zone. Brake believes this kind of driving, that ends with lives being lost is always dangerous. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/156369
Brake is campaigning for better justice for victims of road crashes. Robert Allaway is one of the reasons why. Bob, from Long Preston near Skipton, was killed by a drink-driver while riding his motorbike in the Yorkshire dales. Andrew Crook was two and a half times over the alcohol limit and on the wrong side of the road when he hit Bob. Crook was jailed for four years and six months, so will be out in two and a half years. Bob's wife Lorraine Allaway said: “I vowed on the day Mr Crook was sentenced that I would campaign to get the law changed regarding sentencing of drivers who kill vulnerable road users in Robert's (Bob's) name. I know it won’t change the sentence Mr Crook got but hopefully it will save another family from going through the devastation caused by the loss of a loved one in this way.”
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/156369
Lillian Groves was killed outside her home by a speeding driver on cannabis in June 2010. Her family campaigned tirelessly to change the law on drug-driving, which came into to force last year and is known as 'Lillian's Law'.
Here Lillian's aunt, Michaela Groves, talks about the strict sentencing needed to deter drug drivers.
Lillian Groves was killed outside her home by a speeding driver on cannabis in June 2010. Her family campaigned tirelessly to change the law on drug-driving, which came into to force last year and is known as 'Lillian's Law'.
Here Lillian's aunt, Michaela Groves, speaks out against the 'taboo' subject of drugs and says that people need to understand the consequences of drug driving.