Originally Posted by
Captain Morgan
Re Christopher Gibbs,
My thoughts are that yes the victim has been failed by the system.
My thinking is: Mr Gibbs was clearly visible to other motorists some saying over 180m away, others say they had trouble seeing him.
Q did he have issues with his lights, were some drives more observant than others.
Mr Gibbs was not waring Hi Viz and while it is not a legal requirement I would have hoped that a regular commuter would have used some, I believe that yes this would have contributed to the incident.
That Mr Johnson stopped and performed a cursory search of the area is laudable, I do find it strange that Mr Johnson was unable to locate Mr Gibbs, especially as other road users who I assume were unaware of the collision were able to locate and try to render assistance.
I also have issue with Mr Johnson returning past the scene and observing emergency services at work, hardly an effort regularly undertaken for deer.
On balance I think that a custodial sentence would be justified given he left the scene, returned passed the seen and made efforts to search on the internet for information about the incident.