Bus driver gets 5 years prison - is this justice?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/linc ... 422040.stm

He OBVIOUSLY experienced some kind of "disturbance of consciousness", possibly neurological -

He drove for 22 seconds with his foot on the accelerator thinking he was pressing the brake - so they send him to prison for 5 years.

I think it's just. Five people died as a result of his poor driving. I am sure he is sorry about it, but that doesn't bring those five people back. If he had psychological/neurological problems that caused problems with his driving, then he shouldn't have been a bus driver. A person shouldn't drive if his reaction time is that awful. Twenty-two seconds is a long time (if you don't think so, watch a clock or count to 22).

But then whats jail for? I thought it was supposed to be rehibilation and protection or even a deterrant, none of those apply in this case seeing it was an accident.

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I wonder what drug(s) he had been prescribed by his doctor? Princess Diana's driver had Tiapride in his system - prescribed to him by a psychiatrist. I would be willing to bet that this accident has its origins in the side-effect of a drug. After the bus stopped the driver believed for some time that the brakes were faulty. Some psychiatric drugs "reverse" the decision-making part of the brain. There is a "cover-up" going on. Someone, a doctor, a psychiatrist, knows the real cause of this accident.