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The ancestor of a 21-year-old woman dead by a motorist active at 101mph has issued a ardent appeal to MPs to get alleged “performance” cars off the roads.
["3911.04"]1958 BMW 507 (Hagley Car Show, Wilmington, DE) - Imgur | hagley sports carsGerard McManus, ancestor of Rebecca McManus, said motor manufacturers were “sticking two fingers up at the law”.
And he told MPs: “Performance cars accept no abode on our roads, they accord on the chase track.”
Rebecca, from Oldbury, was dead on May 31 2014 as she waited a bus stop on Hagley Alley in Quinton, Smethwick. The able student, who abounding St Paul’s School for Girls in Edgbaston and advised A-levels at King Edward’s in Stourbridge, had aloof completed a three-year English degree.
Sales rep Sukvinder Mannan, from Halesowen, was confined for eight years at Wolverhampton Crown Cloister afterwards he accustomed causing afterlife by alarming driving.
The cloister heard he had been antagonism a red Misubishi Evolution and West Midlands Badge said footage of the adventure showed the car had been travelling at 101mph.
A additional motorist, Inderjit Singh, of Cranbourne Avenue, Wolverhampton, accustomed a allegation of alarming active and accustomed he was antagonism his BMW.
["906.95"]Marcello Gandini, Lamborghini LP400 Countach, Photo from the 1975 ... | hagley sports carsA attestant told the cloister it was “like a arena out of the antagonism blur The Fast and The Furious”.
Mr McManus apprenticed MPs to act in a accounting acquiescence to a House of Commons analysis into alley cartage laws.
He told the Commons Transport Committee that the Evolution was awash as a “sports” car, adding: “As Mitsubishi acutely accompaniment the ‘Evo’ has been developed through decades of aggressive auspiciously at the accomplished akin of all-embracing rallying, why is it on the road?”
He added: “More and added cars are actuality produced with a antagonism specification, they will never go anywhere abreast a chase track, I acquisition that a bit abstruse because absolutely the disciplinarian of these able cars will appetite to analysis the vehicle, but where? Well on our anchorage obviously.
“Thirty mph acceleration limit, 40mph acceleration limit? It will not matter, and myself like so abounding alley users will watch in abhorrence as cars are apprenticed at speed, or raced with others with no application for others or the after-effects at any time of day, and, those abaft the caster are so generally absolutely immature.”
Mr McManus added: “The motor industry and Alley Cartage act should be alert together, wherever one goes the added should chase duke in hand. They are not, they couldn’t be added apart, every achievement agent at the point of actuality marketed and answer is afraid two fingers up at the law, the motor industry are like capitalistic anarchists, accepted faculty doesn’t matter.”
["776"]Event Coverage: Hagley Classic Car Show | hagley sports carsAnd he said organised abomination gangs benefitted from the availability of achievement cartage because it accustomed them to outrun the police.
“The adeptness to outrun the Badge is a actual advantageous apparatus back alteration chic A drugs or weapons, and the adeptness to go so fast that anecdotic the disciplinarian is impossible.”
He set out a alternation of requests for MPs, saying:
Performance cars accept no abode on our roads, they accord on the chase track.
Marketing of motor cartage should not acknowledgment achievement or speed.
Those who ambition to drive achievement should accept a appropriate class on their authorization which allows use off alley or on a chase clue only.
["1240.63"]Hagley Specialist Cars | Local Dealers | Motors.co.uk | hagley sports carsAll agent announcement should be presented in astute active altitude and accommodate reminders of the law and responsibilities.
Government should advance alley safety.
The Committee has additionally heard affirmation from Government Ministers including Home Office Minister Mike Penning. It will aftermath a address after in the year with recommendations for activity the Government should take.
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