When will people learn. NO ALCOHOL!

Having been hospitalised and almost killed by a drunk driver, I have a unique view on these idiots. For the love of all that is holy JUST GET A TAXI. You’re not going to kill someone in a taxi’s back seat. 130 times over the drug-drive limit when he lost control of his car and killed his best friend is jailed for two years
 Friends were driving back from festival when car crashed and one died
 The driver had taken a cocktail of drugs and was way over the current limit
 Family of 22-year-old who died say his death ‘left a void in so many lives’
 Judge jails driver for two years after hearing he has become a monk
 Defendant’s father is a Tory councillor for Lindhead in Scarborough
Christopher Backhouse has been jailed for causing death by careless driving after he was found to be 130 times the current
drug-drive limit
The son of a former mayor was 130 times the current drug-drive limit when he lost control of his car whilst driving home from a festival and killed his best friend.
Christopher Backhouse, 26, had taken MDMA, ketamine, cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy during four-day event before he killed his friend Alexander Baron, 22, in a crash on the A64 in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. He admitted causing death of careless driving following the crash in August 2014 but was this week jailed for just two years – of which he will serve half behind bars.
Backhouse – who was also convicted of selling ketamine and cocaine in the months following his friend’s death – drove almost 300 miles with Alex and their friend Connor Johnson from the Boom Town Fair in Winchester back home to Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
But about 50 miles from home, he lost control of his blue Renault Clio and it ended up in a ditch.
North Yorkshire Police traffic officer Zoe Billings said his drug reading was ‘simply staggering’ and the highest the force had ever seen. Prosecutor David Bradshaw told the court: ‘Backhouse had 1.3microgrammes per litre of MDMA in his system – which in later legislation was deemed 130 times over the drive limit. ‘This was a near fatal and toxic amount. It is such a significant amount it would affect all aspects of driving.’ Backhouse tried to correct a swerve in his steering and narrowly missed a red Suzuki Swift on the road in front of him.
His car then went through a metal barrier and a fence and into a ditch.
The court heard Baron, who was in the back of the car, had ‘died instantly’ when a fence post had come through the back window and hit his chest. Connor Johnson received a broken neck and ankle. He added: ‘I also want to make this point Mr Baron was not wearing a seatbelt.’ The court heard the defendant is now working with ROPER – a buddist therapy clinic.
Sentencing Backhouse to a two year jail term, Judge Colin Burn said: ‘I know no sentence will bring Mr Baron back, and of course Mr Backhouse has been affected of what happened, but I need to do the duty of the court.’ Source: Mail on Line

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