Take responsibility
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What did Judge Tom Cracknell think he was doing when he gave a 12month suspended sentence to John Williams (CM 16-22 Jan), who fell asleep and killed two men on the M18?
Then he had the gall to say that Williams could do nothing about his fatigue. What a load of hogwash. Williams was the driver behind the wheel—not his doctor. He knew what the danger could be. Ask Tom Cracknell how he would have felt if it hod been his brother or his uncle who had been killed.
There is far too much of "passing the buck" these days. Everyone should be held responsible for their own actions. Drivers who know they are a danger on the road, for whatever reason, with a total disregard for others' safety, who kill with a vehicle, should be treated in exactly the same way as if they had shot them with a gun. It's just not good enough to blame someone else.
I am disgusted that people can wreck lives and walk away free. Ilona Richards, Burton on Trent.