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Tony Raven
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What do you reckon? £200 and don't do it again or do you think the
Courts will be more lenient?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4535676.stm
'Santa' party girl dies in crash
A girl was knocked down and killed as she walked home from a party where
her father had been playing Santa Claus.
Charlotte Adams, five, and her mother Jean were hit by a BMW which
mounted a pavement yards from their home in Clapton, east London, on
Thursday.
Mrs Adams is seriously ill in hospital, her husband Martyn and daughter
Bernadette, 15, were not injured.
The family said Charlotte's death had left them devastated adding: "This
has ruined our lives."
In a statement they said: "We will never be the same again no matter how
much time goes by.
"We thought we were home, we thought we were safe and then this car took
away our precious baby and almost her mother too."
The accident happened at 2045 BST - two men ran from the car. A man has
been arrested and is being questioned.
Flowers were left at the scene on Friday.
Speaking at the family home, Mr Adams said he, Bernadette and their
other daughter Maria Chelsey, 17, were in shock.
"We were coming down the stairs outside the estate, more or less home,
and the next thing I hear a crunch. I look back and there's a car," he said.
"I see that my wife has gone flying and Charlotte disappeared. She was
under the car somewhere.
"My wife was at the side of the car. She was unconscious. Charlotte had
just disappeared and I realised she was gone."
He said his wife, 39, was in intensive care and had six broken ribs.
Sergeant Jim Mills, from the Collision Investigation Unit, said he was
astonished that those responsible had not taken responsibility for their
actions.
"We would appeal to them to do the right thing and give themselves up to
police," he said.
Police said the car was a J-registered BMW 520SE.
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 020 7321 9913.
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Tony
"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham
Courts will be more lenient?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4535676.stm
'Santa' party girl dies in crash
A girl was knocked down and killed as she walked home from a party where
her father had been playing Santa Claus.
Charlotte Adams, five, and her mother Jean were hit by a BMW which
mounted a pavement yards from their home in Clapton, east London, on
Thursday.
Mrs Adams is seriously ill in hospital, her husband Martyn and daughter
Bernadette, 15, were not injured.
The family said Charlotte's death had left them devastated adding: "This
has ruined our lives."
In a statement they said: "We will never be the same again no matter how
much time goes by.
"We thought we were home, we thought we were safe and then this car took
away our precious baby and almost her mother too."
The accident happened at 2045 BST - two men ran from the car. A man has
been arrested and is being questioned.
Flowers were left at the scene on Friday.
Speaking at the family home, Mr Adams said he, Bernadette and their
other daughter Maria Chelsey, 17, were in shock.
"We were coming down the stairs outside the estate, more or less home,
and the next thing I hear a crunch. I look back and there's a car," he said.
"I see that my wife has gone flying and Charlotte disappeared. She was
under the car somewhere.
"My wife was at the side of the car. She was unconscious. Charlotte had
just disappeared and I realised she was gone."
He said his wife, 39, was in intensive care and had six broken ribs.
Sergeant Jim Mills, from the Collision Investigation Unit, said he was
astonished that those responsible had not taken responsibility for their
actions.
"We would appeal to them to do the right thing and give themselves up to
police," he said.
Police said the car was a J-registered BMW 520SE.
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 020 7321 9913.
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Tony
"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham