Driver on "legal high" kills 2, gets 5 years

Merzbow

...yet no joe duffy style uproar to ban this substance?

Man gets five years for killing two in driving accident

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-gets-five-years-for-killing-two-in-driving-accident-481283.html#ixzz14uFuPhQI

Two young men were killed in car crash by a motorist who drove “like a bat out of hell” on the wrong side of the road after having six bottles and five cans of beer at home followed by seven pints, two vodkas, three shots and a line of cocaine in a pub.

Anthony Long, aged 28, of Leadington, Leamlara, Co Cork, was sentenced by Judge Patrick J. Moran to five years and disqualified from driving for 15 years at Cork Circuit Criminal Court today.

He previously pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of two young men. Long fled the scene and walked six miles on a back road to his home before being arrested at the time.

Judge Moran said of the deceased and their two partners who were travelling from Waterford to Cork: “They were a group of young people hoping to go away for a pleasant weekend out of the country. This all ended on the road.”

To the accused, the judge said: “You were going in the wrong direction to your home, you didn’t know where you were going. You left the scene of the accident. Perhaps you were dazed, perhaps you were concussed, perhaps you had so much drink you didn’t know what you were doing.”

Brendan Donnelly, aged 24, from Beech Drive, Greenfields, Waterford, but who was originally from Birr, Co Offaly, and 26-year-old Lee Salkeld, from Fairfield Park, Old Tramore Road, Waterford, were killed when a car driven by Long crashed into their car at Castlemartyr, east Cork, on October 26.

The deceased and their partners had been on their way to Cork Airport in the early hours of the morning to get a flight to Amsterdam for a short holiday.

Detective Sergeant Joe O’Connor said Laura Connolly, Brendan Donnelly’s partner, was driving and she described seeing Long’s Ford Mondeo coming at them on the incorrect side of the road “like a bat out of hell.”

Long had been at a fancy-dress party that night.

Anthony Long said: “Words will never describe how truly and deeply sorry I am. I will never forgive myself for what I have done."


Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-gets-five-years-for-killing-two-in-driving-accident-481283.html#ixzz14uFzaU1c

Their death was clearly as a result of this guy consuming too much of this legal high "alcohol" in his local pub shop.

AlmightyCushion

This never would have happened if he wasn't driving a car. Ban cars I say.

GLaDOS

Why don't we just ban driving? Or people? It's always people...

Rented Mule

Merzbow wrote: »

Their death was clearly as a result of this guy consuming too much of this legal high "alcohol" in his local pub shop.

I'm sure that the cocaine didn't have any effect on the situation.

Merzbow

Rented Mule wrote: »

I'm sure that the cocaine didn't have any effect on the situation.

That's a pathetic attempt at sarcasm, I would imagine the roughly 23 drinks he consumed had more of an impact on his driving than 1 line of cocaine.

InTheTrees

The problem is driving impaired. Does it matter what the substance was?

flas

Rented Mule wrote: »

I'm sure that the cocaine didn't have any effect on the situation.

i would say it actually woke him up a bit and made him a touch more alert, all the drink had him ****ed though

Merzbow

InTheTrees wrote: »

The problem is driving impaired. Does it matter what the substance was?

Well in Ireland it does, if this happened after the driver consumed the equivalent amount of mephedrone, or 1 of the other legal highs - it would be banned the next day.

Orando Broom

An unnatural amount of drink, essentially 24 units of beer 5 units of spirits 29 so far and six bottles is roughly 8 units so 37 units of alcohol and a line of charlie. That is serious.

Sharkey 10

Quite tragic one of those lads went to my school , I didnt know him well but he seemed like a nice lad

Sharkey 10

Rented Mule wrote: »

I'm sure that the cocaine didn't have any effect on the situation.

I dont know whether your being serious or joking but ill take you at face value. Although i dont like cocaine or defending its use i would have to say it had minimal effect

humanji

Merzbow wrote: »

...yet no joe duffy style uproar to ban this substance?

Man gets five years for killing two in driving accident

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-gets-five-years-for-killing-two-in-driving-accident-481283.html#ixzz14uFuPhQI

Their death was clearly as a result of this guy consuming too much of this legal high "alcohol" in his local pub shop.

Drink isn't the issue. Stupidity is.

PCPhoto

why not ban scumbags ??

in fairness - this guy was going to either kill himself or someone else...or both...unfortunately 2 people lost their lives and he has to live with that.

people will drink excessively....use drugs (legal or illegal) and drive ..... why is there not more gardai on the streets patrolling the roads, if we had better enforcement of traffic laws (instead of Gardai going out there to make money - standing near bushes/bus shelters pointing their speedgun - trying to catch someone speeding in an 80km zone)

the only way to save lives on the roads is to have gardai out in force stopping the idiots who cause crashes - get those people off the road and we might have safer roads (oh and fix the damn road limits ..... country roads with 80km and 100km limits are crazy)

Notice for the Gardai/Council - take a look at google street maps and then decide if the speed limit is appropriate ('cos at the moment yer too lazy to get out and see the actual road maybe looking at a picture of it might help)

Sanjuro

He was from Cork. We should ban Cork.

benjamin d

From my experience of people who drink drive, they tend to drive like arseholes when they're sober too.

amacachi

humanji wrote: »

Drink isn't the issue. Stupidity is.

Way to miss the point. :pac:

Blindpew2

I'm sure that most accidents that occur late at night, or early morning, involve large ammounts of drink. Cars don't go out of control and hit trees or other cars unless some drunken idiot is behind the wheel. That guy should have gotten 20 years in jail. As it is this clown will be back on the street in about three years. If it were one of my family he had killed I'd be waiting at the prison gate for him.

PCPhoto

Merzbow wrote: »

...yet no joe duffy style uproar to ban this substance?

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

This never would have happened if he wasn't driving a car. Ban cars I say.

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Why don't we just ban driving? Or people? It's always people...

PCPhoto wrote: »

Why dont we ban scumbags

Sanjuro wrote: »

He was from Cork. We should ban Cork.

I think we got the root of the problem ..... Ban everything !! ....while we're at it lets Ban Banning !!

Seriously .... there is always going to be people who drive the way they want to its a combination of ignorance or stupidity.....so next time you see one of these people ask them are they ignorant or stupid ...when they ask why explain to them what they have done ..... and explain it to them slowly because it means they're stupid, if they tell you to F*ck off ....its simple ....they're ignorant !!

only solution as I said - increase enforcement of traffic laws and traffic corps - catch them before they kill.

PanchoVilla

humanji wrote: »

Drink isn't the issue. Stupidity is.

Alcohol is the third highest risk factor for premature death and ill-health in the
European Union. Alcohol consumption is linked to more than 60 diseases and
conditions, affecting nearly every organ in the human body. Alcohol-related harm is
not confined to the negative consequences experienced by the drinker but extends to
harm experienced by people other than the drinker (harm to others). The harm from
alcohol is linked to a range of health and social problems such as accidents, injuries,
chronic ill-health, premature death, public safety, violence, child neglect, marital
problems and lost productivity. This report summarises alcohol harm in Ireland.

http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/alcohol/Forum/docs/alcohol_lib1_en.pdf

I'm sure many could argue that drinking alcohol is stupid. Must be a lot of stupid people in Ireland then.

Edit: Table 1 of that report is fairly enlightening. I'm surprised such a harmful substance has not been banned yet. I guess there's just too much money to be made from poisoning the population.

humanji

amacachi wrote: »

Way to miss the point. :pac:

What point? I assumed it was just another "why is alcohol not banned if less dangerous drugs are? Let's get the head shops open again. Hurrah!" thread.

PanchoVilla wrote: »

http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/alcohol/Forum/docs/alcohol_lib1_en.pdf

I'm sure many could argue that drinking alcohol is stupid. Must be a lot of stupid people in Ireland then.

Edit: Table 1 of that report is fairly enlightening. I'm surprised such a harmful substance has not been banned yet. I guess there's just too much money to be made from poisoning the population.

You're going off on a tangent. The guy was stupid. That's why those people died. It doesn't have anything to do with the long term effects of alcohol.