Truck driver on phone ploughed into two cars - North West Evening Mail
Published at 10:37, Saturday, 19 May 2012
A TRUCK driver who admitted causing a crash on the A590 when distracted by his mobile phone has been jailed.
David Ryan, of Meadow Lane, Wolverhampton, was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison at Carlisle Crown Court yesterday.
The 26-year-old was driving his 10-tonne lorry near Newby Bridge on January 9 when he tried to answer his ringing phone.
In doing so he lost control of the vehicle and it ploughed into two cars, including a blue Vauxhall carrying a woman and two small children.
Emergency services attended the scene and had to cut several injured people from the car, which came to rest in a roadside ditch.
Seven people, including Ryan, were taken to Furness General Hospital for treatment, but no one suffered serious injuries.
Ryan pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and in addition to his jail sentence was banned from the road for three years.
He will not be allowed back behind the wheel until he has passed a re-test.
A Cumbria police spokesperson said: “This conviction highlights the consequences of driving whilst using a mobile phone.
“This was a very serious accident in which David Ryan admitted he caused after using his mobile phone whilst driving.
“Thankfully no one was seriously injured or killed.
“The police will not tolerate people who use mobiles when they are driving, it is dangerous and puts people’s lives in danger and is one of the ‘fatal four’ contributors to serious accidents: mobile phones, speeding, not wearing seat belts and drink or drug driving.”
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
London Olympics: 'Brothels should be made legal' - zeenews.india.com
London: Dennis Hof, the Nevada brothel owner who became famous as the star of HBO reality show ‘Cathouse’, has said that he wants to start a new and fully legal brothel in London during the upcoming summer Olympics.
He said he wants it -- not just because he could make “a couple million pounds”, but also because legal brothels would stop human trafficking by international criminal gangs.
Hof, 65, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, promoted legal prostitution during a Thursday night debate at the Oxford Union, and told ABC News that while he is in the UK, he is on a mission to sell London authorities on legal brothels.
“The girls are not tested for diseases and they’re trafficked and forced into it. I’m saying it’s not always like that and it doesn’t have to be like that. We can provide the client with a clean, safe and fun experience,” he stated.
Hof said he wouldn’t mind making some money out of a pop-up mini-Bunny Ranch during the Olympic Games, which begin July 27 and are projected to draw as many as 900,000 visitors to London.
He estimates that he would make “a couple million pounds” during the three-week event, which he said is “much more than the average” he would make during a similar period at his Nevada brothel, where he employs 500 girls.
But he said his main concerns are the health and safety of both sex workers and their clients, and stopping a short-term epidemic of human trafficking.
“I expect 1,000 girls to be trafficked in by Southeast Asian, Albanian and African gangs, violent gangs involved in crime and drugs,” said Hof, who based his prediction on what he said he witnessed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
While prostitution is legal in the UK, operating a brothel, pimping and streetwalking are all illegal, as is paying for sexual services from someone who has been coerced into prostitution.
Hof believes that establishing legal brothels around metropolitan London for the duration of the games would provide safe sex for both tourists and prostitutes, as well as much-needed tax revenue.
Hof’s girlfriend and employee, 25-year-old Cami Parker, who accompanied him on his UK trip, enthusiastically backed his proposal. “Sex is as much a human need as food or water,” said Parker.
The Oxford Union, however, seemed unconvinced by Hof’s reasoning.
During his Thursday speech, Hof told listeners legal brothels would “sort out all your problems. It would be a good thing for your country, I’m telling you.”
According to the debating society’s website, after Hof spoke a motion in which the Union would support “recognis[ing] prostitution as a legitimate business” was defeated.
ANI
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