Bella Cristina (Bella's Law)

[syerph]

Christina (Chrissy) and Graham were at the bungalow in a little village outside of town. They were preparing for the forthcoming birth of their first child. Nothing was left as “It will do for now”. If they weren’t happy it was ripped out and started again. It had to be perfect.
The work had gone on for months and pride of place was the nursery.
Chrissy was pregnant and all was going well. She was due to give birth full term, in a few weeks time.
She said goodbye to Graham, got in her car and left to travel to her parents home in town. At the same time a man was driving at high speed on a duel carriageway in the opposite direction. He was overtaking cars estimated at up to 90mph, determined that he would get to the end of the duel carriageway before them. Chrissy had just got on to the main road from the village to town when the same car sped around a bend crossed the carriageway and crashed into her.
The impact was so powerful it lifted her car off the road and pushed it through a wall and it landed in some woods.
It was a dark, dank winters evening and she was trapped in her car. The people in the vehicles that had been overtaken tried to help as best they could. When the emergency services arrived she said “I can’t breath”.
They only found out she was pregnant when they cut her free.
She had an emergency Caesarean section but baby Bella was still born.
Chrissy haemorrhaged and bled to death.
Chrissy was 35. Bella was 8 months old.
Please find story on face book Bella Cristina and sign and SHARE both link and story. It takes 2 minutes to make a difference. Thank You.

epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/65451

[syerph]

No charge brought for Bella's death.

[Onesleeptillwembley]

Still born or eight months old? Or do you mean eight months duration? Sorry I'm not touching your link, this is just like a milks and boone story. You're not actually telling us what you want.

[wannaBe]

it sounds as if the woman was eight months pregnant when she had the accident and that as a result the baby was stillborn, and that as such, the charge of death by dangerous driving applied only to the mother and not the unborn child which is what the petitioner wants to change.

I'm unclear whether this mother and child actually existed or whether they are just characters made up for the purposes of creating a petition, because the whole thing does read like a badly written novel tbh.

Afaik in the UK unborn babies have no rights, so in order to make a charge like this stick you would have to seek the entire law surrounding rights of the unborn child.
Therefore it's IMO completely pointless signing anything of this nature as it won't achieve anything.

[syerph]

Pregnant road crash victim named
A driver has been found guilty of causing the death of a pregnant woman in a crash in north Wales.

Calvin Connah, 22, from Leeswood, Flintshire, was driving at 85mph (136km) before his car crashed into Christina Barchetti's vehicle at Pontblyddyn, Mold Crown Court heard.

She died at nearby Wrexham Maelor Hospital and her daughter was still-born after an emergency operation.

Connah had denied causing death by dangerous driving in October 2012.

The court was told he was driving his father's BMW and decided to overtake another car at the end of a 70mph (112km) dual carriageway.

But he braked hard when the road became a single carriageway as it entered bends through a wood in a 50mph (80km) area.

He lost control of his car which crashed virtually head-on into a Ford Ka being driven by Maelor hospital worker Ms Barchetti, 35, from Wrexham.

'Error of judgement'
The court was told she was driving at 40mph (64km) in the wet conditions on her own side of the road when the crashed happened, pushing her vehicle back through a wall into woodland.

During his three-day trial, Connah claimed he had driven no faster than 60mph (96km) along the dual carriageway, denied overtaking another car at the last minute, and said he lost control on the bend at 50mph because of the weather conditions.

He had made an error of judgement, he claimed.

But witnesses told how he sped along the dual carriageway at an excessive speed. An accident investigator estimated that he must have been travelling at about 85mph before the crash.

Judge Philip Hughes refused a bail application and remanded Connah in custody for sentencing.

He warned him that he would receive a substantial prison sentence.

Connah had admitted causing death by careless driving, but denied the more serious charge.