A leading road safety organisation has reacted angrily to news that three drivers caught racing on public roads at 134mph have avoided jail sentences.
Amar Paul, Tejinder Bhuee, and Zafar Iqbal, were filmed driving at speeds up to 134mph on a dual carriageway in the West Midlands. When the three men appeared at Birmingham Crown Court this week for sentencing, their six-month prison sentences were suspended by the judge for two years. In addition to the suspended jail terms the three men were all banned from the roads for 12 months, punishment described by Brake as ‘lenient’.
"It's shocking that these defendants escaped jail time because no one was killed or injured”, said Jason Wakeford, a spokesman for the charity, adding that the sentences show that “tougher penalties for those who deliberately put people's lives at risk on the roads are well overdue.
“Roads are not racetracks. We welcome the crackdown on the menace of illegal street racing by West Midlands Police and other forces, but there needs to be more overall investment in road traffic policing across the UK to improve road safety."
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