Hard to get your head around

red_harrington

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Near where I live there was a fatal car crash least week. The man survived but his wife and 3 of his 4 kids died, you may have seen it on the news.

I know him cos my son goes to scouts and he's the scout leader. He's a proper good bloke, a gentle giant and all-round decent human being that I wish there were more of.

Meanwhile in Scotland, a lad gets wasted on booze, coke and E, takes some teenagers out in his car and crashes it, causing one death and the other two to become seriously injured.

He survives with just a fracture to his wrist, and he drags one of the injured into the drivers seat, to make it look like it was them that was driving at the time of the crash. You can read about it here.

For all of that, he got just 4 years.

It's difficult to get your head around what happens to people. I understand that in the first instance there is a certain amount of luck in this world, anything can happen to anyone at anytime, even super nice people like Josh, and you try and mitigate bad luck by behaving responsibly. He has my deepest sympathies.

But in the second instance, the circumstances were made by disgraceful decisions by the perpetrator, not luck. In which case, why just 4 years?
 
That case with the family from chinnor is awful, even more so when you hear how their house burnt down a few months ago. They seemed like such a lovey family too.

I’ve lived around the Aylesbury area (both north and south of AYL for the past few years and know chinnor fairly well, as well as having passed that stretch of the A40 hundreds of times.

it’s not often I well up when reading news stories, but that has genuinely cut me up and been on my mind at a few points this week :(
 
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