There is no cure for stupidity

Jason Thomas, a 33yo uninsured and disqualified driver from Dudley, West Midlands, collected his three children from school in his Vauxhall Vectra.

On the way home, Mr Thomas was flagged by police. Instead of pulling over, he refused to stop.

In the ensuing chase, he drove through red lights, he drove against traffic lights and road signals, he reached speeds exceeding 100mph.

All this, with his three children in the back of his car.

What stuns me most about this, isn’t his failure to stop. It isn’t that this was his sixth conviction for dangerous driving. It isn’t that he has eleven previous convictions for driving whilst disqualified. It isn’t the futile sentence of 22 months in prison (out in six months with good behaviour), or the extraordinarily pathetic ten year driving ban.

No..

What stuns me most about this was after Jason Thomas T-Boned, at speed, another car, Mr Thomas abandoned his car – with his three children in the back – and attempted to flee the scene.

Three children? Abandoned in the back of a car? After a high-speed chase? After a serious collision?

There is no cure for stupidity.

But how do we allow people like this to breed?