2 girls killed while out training

pconn062

Very sad story coming out of England last night. Two young and very talented runners were knocked down and killed while out training by a drunk driver.

Just shows how careful you need to be, and sometimes even that is not enough. Hopefully he is locked away for life.

Tributes have been paid to talented teenage Aldershot, Farnham and District athletes Lucy Pygott and Stacey Burrows who died after being hit by a car while training in Aldershot on Tuesday evening.

Both athletes were out running at the start of a training session when they were involved in a collision with a black Ford Focus on Queens Avenue shortly after 7:10pm.

The achievements of both runners have featured in the pages of AW on a number of occasions, with 17-year-old Pygott this year’s England under-20 3000m champion and European Youth Championships bronze medallist, and 16-year-old Burrows the Hampshire under-17 3000m champion. Their most recent successes came at the Saucony English Cross Country Relay Championships in Mansfield on Saturday.

Read more at http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/tributes-paid-afd-athletes-lucy-pygott-stacey-burrows-53313#jDscE8mIdcAWBHW7.99

Kristopherus

Hopefully he's done for murder and sent down for the rest of his days.

The Black Oil

That's terrible. I don't know what to say. So young.

robinph

A girl from my club had recently been on training camp with one of the girls that was killed aparently.

walshb

Terrible news this. I'd like to hear the finer details. I wonder did he mount the footpath or was it a case that they were on the road? Likely he will serve time here, but probably not much.

tailgunner

walshb wrote: »

Terrible news this. I'd like to hear the finer details. I wonder did he mount the footpath or was it a case that they were on the road? Likely he will serve time here, but probably not much.

They were crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing.

walshb

tailgunner wrote: »

They were crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing.

Okey doke..... Desperate. And him high as a kite.......Unreal. Dangerous enough driving in the dark when sober, but with drink and drugs you are a lethal weapon.

Chivito550

These 2 girls are in the same club as an English female training partner of mine from when I was in Melbourne. Small world.

Chivito550

Talking to my friend and the specifics are very upsetting to hear so won't go into it. But the culprit was going 70 in a 30 zone and went through red lights. He's a 24 year old army guy, was drunk, and astonishingly has been let out on bail. He should be locked away for a long long time. Unforgivable.

Cabaal

Very sad, I'd expect the driver to get a slap on the wrist though

walshb

Chivito550 wrote: »

Talking to my friend and the specifics are very upsetting to hear so won't go into it. But the culprit was going 70 in a 30 zone and went through red lights. He's a 24 year old army guy, was drunk, and astonishingly has been let out on bail. He should be locked away for a long long time. Unforgivable.

70 mph?

Chivito550

walshb wrote: »

70 mph?

I assume that's what she meant. Think it's all in miles over there.

walshb

Chivito550 wrote: »

I assume that's what she meant. Think it's all in miles over there.

As I was thinking... imperial measure. That's madness. I was only commenting the other day about how dangerous it is driving at night and how your visibility is very much impaired. That's when sober and taking care. This maniac was out of control it seems.

robinph

Don't know, but it is possible that whilst he's been released from police custody on bail that he now finds himself locked up in the army base instead. They are unlikely to be letting him roam free anywhere.

glacial_pace71

Aldershot is still very much a garrison town: it'd be impossible to find a jury that didn't contain armed services' families, e.g. some could be very sympathetic to PTSD etc. More likely they'd just want to lynch him. Sandhurst is only up the road: perhaps they could give him to the cadets there for accidental entanglement in a lanyard.
Just 15 and 16 - heartbreaking to see young talent lost in such a manner: it wasn't tragic circumstances, but inadequate supervision by his colleagues. He killed two people on the road that leads directly to garrison HQ.