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Car crash - driving without due care and attention.
On Tuesday 12th March at 4pm i was travelling to B hospital as my mum got rushed in by ambulance as an emargency, I followed on to the hosp an hour later. And I took the trun off on to in 40 mph road in stop stat traffic, I couldnt emergency stop so i went into the car in front of me, and so the car in front went into the next car and next car. so Four cars involved. I didnt manage to do a emergency stop in time. Of course i was shaken up and taken by ambulance to hosp myslef. At the incident my phone was checked which was fine, none of us got breathalised at all which i find amazing. Yesterday I got called into Police station to give a statement as i havent been able to do this due to my mum being critically ill in hosp and trying to manage two young children. Basically the other cars have said that i pushed them along the real damage was to my vechile and slight to others, nobody else was hurt except for myself. In the meantime P.C had said over the phone that i wasnt being presecuted and then last night she puled this one on me, plus also which my husband and i didnt realise our car needed to be MOT by Jan 25th 2010 and it hadnt. So this is where iam at the moment, so worried and upset as i have never had a driving conviction or points on my licence. the only ohter thing i was told that i couldnt do the driving course anymore as Essex dont do it anymore can you beleive this . At the incident i was treated terribly by the police all six of them, and i feel so very low and depressed about this in such an innicent situation it was a pure accident and nothing else, i have never done wreckless driving before but i was so worried my mum would of died in the ambulance. I didnt cause any injurys to anyone and at such a slow speed. I do feel this is so unfair. And of course im not happy by the way the police have treated me in this incident. I look forward to your reply
Im afraid you are always going to struggle to defend a case when you hit another car from behind. Despite that you have allot of mitigation and I would hope the court will be sympathetic.
You may be able to argue that its an abuse of process if they promised you you would be prosecuted - but I anticipate that that was on the basis that you complete the driver improvement course...
It may be possible to get you on the driver improvement course i a different area if you are willing to do it.