Idiots on our roads

I was watching one of those police reality shows the other night and they showed a man who, about 7 years ago, was driving drunk and killed a 10 year old girl. I think he went to jail back then for a short time, and one of his bail conditions was that he couldn't drink and they suspended his licence. On this show, he was picked up by the police - driving and drunk - three times over the limit. So, what did the courts give him? A 9 month sentence, suspended for one year. They also added more time to his licence suspension. BIG DEAL! This is a serial offender who has been caught driving many times before, and the cameras caught him driving again after his court appearance. To me, that's it. He's gone. Throw him in jail and throw away the key. He obviously has no respect for the law, no respect for himself and his family, and absolutely no respect for the rest of us. What's it going to take before the court gets tough on him? Does someone else need to die? Because it's for sure that he won't kill himself in a crash - that just doesn't happen.

There's another side to this story. If he's driving on a suspended licence, whose car is he driving? He should not be allowed to have a car registered in his name while the suspension is in place. In fact, I believe it should be taken off him completely. Either impounded or he can transfer it into a relative's name. Then, if he is caught driving, that car is impounded immediately. You can't tell me that his friends and family don't know he is suspended, and if they allow him to drive, they deserve to lose their car. Unless they can prove that they didn't know (which would be almost impossible to do), they should also lose the right to have a car at all. It's harsh, I know, but it seems to me to be the only way we can stop these dickheads driving on the road with me and my child. As I said in a previous post, if the reason they don't go to jail is because of overcrowding, then get the white collar criminals out and put idiots like this in.