Teenage driver Jake Loy jailed for killing three friends in Dumfries and Galloway crash

https://news.sky.com/story/teenage-driver-jake-loy-jailed-for-killing-three-friends-in-dumfries-and-galloway-crash-13199741

Posted by topotaul

12 Comments

  1. Cases like these are always strange to me in the multiple die except the person driving the car.

  2. 1. He didn’t have a driving license (provisional doesn’t count without a valid supervisor in the car)
    2. for the damage both cars sustained he had to be going some.

    Absolutely the right call here – though the driving ban could, and probably should, be longer.

  3. William_Taylor-Jade on

    > A judge noted that Loy had “no memory of the collision or the events leading up to it”.

    Yeah, I’m calling bullshit on this. Convenient attempt to dodge accountability

  4. Longjumping_Stand889 on

    I have a tiny bit of sympathy for him, having caused those deaths is a heavy burden, especially when so young.

  5. DangerousAvocado208 on

    Never driven it on a public road but decides to joyride it at over 60mph with three other kids?

    The sheer audacity of this kid to think this wouldn’t go exactly how it did….

  6. One thing I really hate is young people who don’t take driving seriously. To me, the fact that mine or someone else’s life could be ended out of sheer arrogance and stupidity is just loathsome.

    I know that this can apply to anyone of any age, but young people in particular seem to think it’s funny when they carelessly piss about on the road.

  7. This might be a controversial opinion but I think seventeen year olds are too immature to be put in control of a motor vehicle. They have the lives of themselves and everybody around them in their hands. This is somebody who is legally still considered a child. The driving age should be 18 minimum, maybe even as high as 21. Teenage boys are simply too impulsive and reckless as we see time and again in the news.

  8. jesus_fatberg on

    New Zealand has a law where drivers under 21 cannot have passengers under 21 in the car with them, unless also accompanied by an adult over 21. Need something similar here.

  9. Jailed for four years and eight months and disqualified from driving for eight years.
    He’ll be out in eighteen months or less, would have got a longer sentence if he posted online and offended someone.

    The UK is basically a criminal’s paradise.

  10. > Three men in the CR-V were also seriously injured, with two suffering life-threatening injuries.

    3 other people seriously injured and affected for life. He should get at least 10 years in prison.