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BBC News
2 days ago
- Automotive
- BBC News
Broadstairs mum meeting MPs over graduated driver campaign
The mother of a teenager who died in a crash in Kent is meeting MPs to promote a campaign which would see young new drivers become subject to stricter Entwistle, from Broadstairs, lost her son Ethan two days before his 19th birthday when the car he was a passenger in crashed into a Entwistle is among a group of bereaved families who will meet MPs on Thursday to advance the case for graduated driver want to extend the learner driver period, ban new drivers aged 17-19 from carrying "peer-aged" passengers for six months and make motorway and rural road experience mandatory during lessons. Ms Entwistle said: "We hope that all the MPs we speak to will back us."She said that the campaign petition, which had just over 103,000 signatures when first brought to Parliament in April, now has nearly 108,000 supporters. "Our main hope is they [MPs] actually formalise and put graduated driving licences in place," Ms Entwistle said, adding: "I won't stop pushing until something changes."According to national road safety charity IAM RoadSmart, a fifth of all collisions in 2023 involved a young driver."Statistics also show that young male drivers are proportionately most likely to have an accident in between the age of 16 and 24," said spokesperson Harriet Hernando.A campaign by Ms Entwistle and other local residents saw Kent County Council introduce extra speed restriction measures around the site where Ethan crashed on Dumpton Park efforts have been made to get a community speedwatch group up and running. This went live in March, meaning there is now a police-issued speed monitoring device near the driver of the car Ethan was a passenger in admitted to causing death by dangerous driving on Tuesday. The Department for Transport said it recognised the increased risks faced by young people on the roads but it was "not considering graduated driving licences".
BBC News
4 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Man admits causing passenger's death in Broadstairs crash
A man has admitted causing the death of his passenger when he crashed his car into a tree in Hammond, 20, appeared before Canterbury Crown Court on Wednesday where he spoke only to confirm his name and enter a guilty plea to the charge of causing death by dangerous Entwistle, 18, died when Hammond crashed the car he was driving on Dumpton Park Drive, Broadstairs, on 1 October Entwistle's mother, Keena Entwistle, said it was a relief to hear the driver plead guilty to the charge. The judge told Hammond to prepare for a custodial punishment when he is sentenced on 28 August. Ms Entwistle said she was relieved that Hammond had "taken responsibility for what he's done".She added that he had not only "ruined Ethan's life" but also the lives of her family and "so many people". Ben Brazil - one of Ethan's closest friends who was also a passenger in the car when it crashed - said he thought about the incident every said hearing the guilty plea was "like a big stress relief gone"."After the hearing today I know it's not going to go on for a couple more years, it's going to be over and done with sooner," he bail conditions include not sitting in the front seat of a vehicle for any reason and not contacting the other passengers who were in the car at the time of the has also been formally disqualified from driving. The length of the ban and any necessary re-tests will be decided at a later date, the judge County Council has introduced extra speed restriction measures around the site of the crash following a campaign by Ms Entwistle and other local residents after the incident.
