Eleven months after it happened the BBC have reported that Ben Morphey, 22, from High Street, Yoxford, Suffolk, has admitted five charges of causing death by careless driving while unfit due to drink.
I attended this awful incident in the early hours of 1st July 2006, on the A12 just south of Blythburgh. Everyone from the emergency services – the four fire crews from Normanshurt (Lowestoft), Southwold, Wrentham and Halesworth, the paramedics and the police all worked well together and tirelessly. But sometimes you are helpless, the situation is beyond you. Our job is to save life and when you can’t do that it hits you hard.
This isn’t the place for me to really say what I think about drink driving – except to say "why?"
Why, with all the publicity that drink driving gets, don’t some people understand the possible consequences of them getting behind the wheel after consuming alcohol?
Mr Morphey has been told to expect a custodial sentence. I wonder what term he will serve. Five people died on that night or shortly afterwards. Their families are now serving their own life sentences…
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