My brother would have been 46 last Wednesday, if he hadn't been killed by a drunk driver when he was 17. The driver, a taxi driver, pleaded with the judge that he would lose his job if he got any more (!) points on his licence. The judge let him off with a caution.

The same driver killed another teenager several years later.

My brother lost his life, the other teenager lost thiers. My family was never the same again, my mother became permanently disabled as a result of it, I'm sure the other family were equally effected.... and yet, the taxi driver didn't want to lose his job.

No wonder MADD and others want to enforce the maximum penalties and state 'causing death/injury by dangerous driving' as the charge.

It doesn't matter how YOU think you are or are not affected, however much, you are affected!