West Midlands Police talks about dangerous driving following tragic death

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West Midlands Police's Detective Sergeant Paul Hughes has talked of the dangerous of dangerous driving and speeding following the death of two-year-old Shehbaz Singh

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00:00I think for myself to describe our aim as Westminster Police and the community

00:06as Westminster, we don't want people to be seriously injured or killed on our roads.

00:11We talk about Vision Zero, but that's not just the police, that's the

00:19local authorities, the councils, the communities, our partner agencies. We all

00:26want that and it's taking the learning, if we can, from incidents like this, even if

00:33it's just that one driver. If that one driver looks at this collision, looks at

00:38the impact on a family, this is a family that are very, very close and live

00:44together, can no longer go back to that address they've had to move. This is a

00:48family that are described as a quiet, polite family and where the family

00:55liaison officer describes to me that he can see the pain in their eyes whenever

00:58he speaks to them. We don't want that. So as a driver, if you're looking down at

01:04your speedo, if you're looking at the road ahead, that split second decision, if it

01:10just makes you slow down and think about your actions, the possibility to drive safe

01:16safe and not take another life is what we want.

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