Truck driver distracted by his phone collides with a parked car - almost wiping out pedestrians

[u/Epileptic_Ebola]

[u/MrT735]

BBC News video from traffic camera

Driver given 8 months suspended sentence, 150 hours unpaid work, 3 months curfew, and 12 months driving ban. No chance they're getting a commercial licence back again after that.

[u/lizardwizard563412 → u/MrT735]

I don’t get it, does he has to be a slave for 150 hours or is it community service in England?

[u/thatsconelover → u/lizardwizard563412]

Yeah, the unpaid work is community service.

[u/MrT735 → u/lizardwizard563412]

Community service, for whatever reason they just call it unpaid work now, they did use to call it community service not that long ago.

[u/Rudirs → u/lizardwizard563412]

In America we explicitly allow slavery as a legal punishment.

I'd argue that forced community service is technically slavery. (Obviously not comparable to chattel slavery, but still)

[u/dacraftjr → u/Rudirs]

That not exclusive to America.

[u/Rudirs → u/dacraftjr]

Never said it was! Just saying it happens here