The Dark side of Japan Tourism.

A few links I came across. First Australians Detained Abroad. Set up by the Military Attorney for David Hicks of Al Qaeda fame. he was amazed at the lack of help for Australians over seas. He now lives in Melbourne.

And a few others re the laws in Japan plus more English speaking lawyers.



What the US Military does when a service member is arrested.

And the US Department of State and human rights in Japan.

Interesting that late night interrogations they feel are a violation and I was interrogated for over an hour at 8.30pm on the Sunday I was in detention.

I will now go on and finish the Hokkaido TR i promise.
 
Interesting article of a court case about to commence in south Australia. With exactly the opposite charges. Same situation. Sadly a death of the young man who was in the same position as you . I guess drron you were 'lucky' it was 'only' a bike in your accident.

 
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Certainly a unique travel experience.

A "unique travel experience" that none of us wish would happen to us.

To borrow from that long ago 'Clayton's' commercials, for drrron, itr was "the holiday you have when you're not having a holiday".

Dr, my prayers are for you in the hope you've fully recovered not just physically but psychologically.
 
Interesting article of a court case about to commence in south Australia. With exactly the opposite charges. Same situation. Sadly a death of the young man who was in the same position as you . I guess drron you were 'lucky' it was 'only' a bike in your accident.

Behind a pay wall unfortunately.
 
Behind a pay wall unfortunately.
That's weird. It opens for me on a different browser and I'm not logged in there.

Basically a young man slowed down to perform a right turn in Kangaroo Island. As he was making the turn a sealink tourist bus was overtaking him - or maybe he was simply travelling faster than an obviously slowing driver doing a right turn, the bus hit the car with the driver of the car taking the full impact and the car driver was killed almost instantly. His passenger was injured. The bus driver will soon go to court facing charges -

Mr Kleinig, 59, of Kingscote, was charged with one aggravated count and one basic count of driving without due care as a result of the collision.

He has pleaded not guilty to both charges, and is listed to stand trial in the Adelaide Magistrates Court in November.

Those proceedings will take place before Magistrate Oliver Koehn sitting alone, because the lower court does not empanel juries for its trials.

The offence of aggravated driving without due care carries a maximum 12-month prison term and minimum six-month licence disqualification.
 
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The recent Victorian case where a fellow was let go free after he killed 5 people in an mva because he was in a diabetic coma. Apparently the prosecution stuffed up the case.

The prosecution failed to mention that the man had 9 low sugar alerts leading up to the accident. At the very least his licence to drive should be revoked. The details were made publicly about the alerts soon after the accident.
 
The recent Victorian case where a fellow was let go free after he killed 5 people in an mva because he was in a diabetic coma. Apparently the prosecution stuffed up the case.

The prosecution failed to mention that the man had 9 low sugar alerts leading up to the accident. At the very least his licence to drive should be revoked. The details were made publicly about the alerts soon after the accident.
I did read somewhere during that trial that he had dismissed several alerts. Gone are the days when people take responsibility.
 
I did read somewhere during that trial that he had dismissed several alerts. Gone are the days when people take responsibility.
Yes it seems incomprehensible that he didn’t know he was having a medical issue and yet still acted irresponsibly by driving while impaired. I’m sure he’s feeling sorry but the deaths of 5 people due to his irresponsible behaviour seems to deserve a court finding of guilt.
 
Yes it seems incomprehensible that he didn’t know he was having a medical issue and yet still acted irresponsibly by driving while impaired. I’m sure he’s feeling sorry but the deaths of 5 people due to his irresponsible behaviour seems to deserve a court finding of guilt.
sadly it's all about the evidence and not the result. Seems there was a monumental stuff up.
 
Yes it seems incomprehensible that he didn’t know he was having a medical issue and yet still acted irresponsibly by driving while impaired. I’m sure he’s feeling sorry but the deaths of 5 people due to his irresponsible behaviour seems to deserve a court finding of guilt.
Easy to draw comparisons with another recent case. I am not opening discussions about this other one and will leave it there.
 
Seems there was a monumental stuff up.
By the prosecution whose case was about the period of the accident and not the period prior to the accident when he got the alerts. Basically they said he knew he had low blood sugar when he rammed into the beer garden. But at the time he was obviously in a coma with a sugar level of 1.1 and so he could not have known that he was heading toward the pub. Of course does not excuse the fact that as a long term diabetic he should have known better and not driven. But the magistrate said the prosecutions case was not about that
 
Well no one prosecuted the truck driver than hit MstrQS1 in Aarhus DK last year, MstrQS1 was riding a bike as you do, when he was stopped at the traffic light. A turning truck hit him.

# L1 vertebral body though stable # . Truck stopped to help and then left. Free hospital care, free spine orthotic and meds. Hospital even took him home with occupational therapist checking house to make sure all would be Ok. No surgery needed. Bike OK.
 

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