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Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Laura Trant. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The top stories this evening: Living with the cost | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
of using a mobile phone at the wheel. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
The day Meg met the man who killed her boyfriend. | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Is this one of the most dangerous roads | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
A BBC South investigation examines the record of the A34. | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
And the cold, wet and blustery conditions will continue at times. | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
These are the faces of people who have died in car | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
crashes in the south - all of them victims of motorists | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
This week, a new law comes into force which will double | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Well, one teacher from the south is calling for schoolchildren to be | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
taught about the dangers of drivers using mobile phones. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
She has her own reasons for wanting to change the culture | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Matt Graveling has this exclusive report. | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
Gavin was an Australian through and through. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
We'd talked about holidays, potentially going out | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
It was something we were both really looking forward to. | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
He was on his way to work and then he was about six miles | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
or so from work and then just didn't make it. | :01:33. | :01:42. | |
Lewis Stratford - a 24-year-old painter and decorator | :01:43. | :01:43. | |
from Oxford was driving - and arguing with his | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
girlfriend on the phone - when he crashed into Gavin's car. | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
I wish I could turn back time, change obviously not | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
And from that moment I was just blaming everything on me. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
And I didn't want to get better then, I didn't want the physio, | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
I didn't want the treatments, I feel like I've been kept | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
here to pay for the mistake that I've made and punished. | :02:07. | :02:19. | |
Gavin died of his injuries four days after the accident. | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Lewis has already pleaded guilty to causing his death | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
When someone gets convicted of a crime or an offence you never | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
get to see what that person's like and what background they got. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Just days before he's due back in court to be sentenced, | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
I want to ask what he was thinking, what possessed him to pick | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
up his mobile phone behind the wheel - I want to know how he's feeling | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
now, how it might affect him and to let him know how I'm feeling. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Lewis agreed to meet Meg with our cameras present, | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
and restorative justice councillor Helen Leney. | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
An apology that's given in court is very often mistrusted by a victim | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
whereas if a victim sits down face to face with the person who has | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
caused the harm that can be enormously helpful in allowing | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
victims then to be able to move on from what's happened. | :03:02. | :03:15. | |
I'll never forget it ever and I'll never be sorry enough but I can't | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
every time I say sorry it sounds a bit cheap, it just sounds not | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
A little bit, but then so many people do it, so many people. | :03:23. | :03:45. | |
I don't want to hate you for ever, I'm not that type of person. | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Eventually I will probably be able to forgive you. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
English teacher Meg is now calling for all schoolchildren to be taught | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
about the dangers of using mobiles behind the wheel before | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
You can see more on that story on Inside Out South on I player. | :04:01. | :04:19. | |
The road from Winchester through the Thames Valley has had | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
several serious and fatal accidents which have hit the headlines | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
But is it any more dangerous than similar routes? | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
We asked the independent organisation, Road Safety Analysis, | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
Over the last ten years the number of crashes | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
on the A34 has reduced in line with the national trend. | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
it was worse than the A303 in Wiltshire. | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
The A34 is around one third safer than the average A road. | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
the result of driver error, NOT the design of the road | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
The Newbury MP says improvements have to be made. There are major | :04:59. | :05:10. | |
strategic issues as well as safety issues and I don't think that that | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
evidence has changed my opinion one iota. In fact it has made it clear | :05:15. | :05:25. | |
that if the A34 is more dangerous, that is an added impetus for us to | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
get major investment in this key arterial route. And if we don't get | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
major investment, could smaller things be done to make a significant | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
difference, things like road marking chevrons? Absolutely. And there are | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
a number of minor junction improvements, some of which have | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
been announced and some in due course. I want to future proof this | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
road for the kind of traffic we are going to be seeing in the next 20, | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
30 years. That road was built to use a fraction of the traffic on it | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
today. If you look to the future and with the expansion of Southampton | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
freight terminal, and the demands of the economy, we have got to be | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
planning for decades ahead, and not just treating the problem as it | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
exists today, which is serious, but looking further into the future as | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
well. Thank you very much. The BBC is holding a special debate on this | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
story tomorrow morning. That is on three of our local radio stations. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Bournemouth father-of-three Stephen Mallon was fatally injured | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
after being attacked by armed locals and pushed from a 16ft ledge. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Today, at an inquest, his family were told they are now | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
free to cremate Stephen's body - eight years after he died. | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
A quiet Spanish village and an unlikely scene for the most | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
Stephen Mallon and his two sons were set upon by 30 men armed | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
with knuckle dusters, iron bars, belts and bottles. | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
When they came out of that bar they were surrounded and cornered in. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
An armed mob waiting for them, two young lads with their dad | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
Spanish courts took five years to imprison just one man. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
He served five years for the equivalent of manslaughter | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
It really is like a living nightmare and we got so used to Stephen | :07:35. | :07:46. | |
being in the mortuary and it seemed really quite normal to us, | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
which is really weird because it is abnormal. | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
The delay has been caused by an appeal process and a lack of legal | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
aid. The family have criticised the coroner's offers for the lack of | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
communication. The coroner today apologised for the delays and any | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
statement blamed the Spanish judicial system but said it was | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
something beyond their control. The conclusion of unlawful killing was | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
held. The funeral has now been scheduled for later this week. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
He would be so heartbroken to see really what his family has had to go | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
He would just want his children to recover and move forward from this. | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
The Duchess of Cornwall has praised soldiers returning home | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
She spoke today to men and women of The Fourth Battallion | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
"The Rifles", in Aldershot, about their recent | :08:50. | :08:50. | |
deployment helping to train Iraqi security forces. | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
Friends and family watched on as it rained heavily on the parade | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
That's all from the South Today news team this evening. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
We're back tomorrow with bulletins in BBC Breakfast and there's more | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
We saw a lot of rain. Quite a soggy day all in all. The weather for the | :09:02. | :09:15. | |
week ahead will have been and showers at times, some sunny spells | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
and each morning will be pretty chilly, so tonight we have a few | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
heavy showers at the moment which is why the Met office in the last few | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
moments have issued a weather warning for icy conditions through | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
parts of Wiltshire and Doctor Chad and we may see a wind today show | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
what the temperature following to freezing. There may be one or two | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
showers along the south coast but mainly falling as rain so the | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
showers by away tomorrow morning and the bright and sunny start but then | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
the showers get going once again with increasing cloud and they could | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
be when Tilly and they could be when Tyrian places. Falling mainly as | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
rain. The temperature tomorrow up to around seven Celsius and the brisk | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
westerly wind making it feel colder. Tomorrow night the showers ease | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
during the early hours and one North two wind today through parts of | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Oxfordshire but otherwise a dry start and the temperature falling to | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
around three Celsius. A chilly start on Wednesday, right and a sunny spot | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
and cloud will thicken into the morning and we see outbreaks of rain | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
which will become persistent at times and heavy in places through | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
the day on Wednesday and engulfing much of the region. Highs of 7-10, | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
milder conditions along the south coast, so the rain eventually | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
clearing Wednesday night and once it does Thursday will be mainly dry | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
with a Reg high pressure and cloud increasing through the afternoon and | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
into the evening and the arrival of another weather systems through | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Friday. Friday still a few days away so things can change but we expect | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
rain at times, gradually easing during the course of the afternoon | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
and into Chevening. The temperature up to around 10 Celsius, so the | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
weekend and settled with rain and showers at times, some sunny spells | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
and feeling chilly. John Hammond has the weather for the | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
rest of | :11:06. | :11:06. |