In June 2018, 15-year-old Paula Fornés was killed by a drunk driver in Sa Rapita. The driver, Renata Gotcha, was sentenced to four years for causing her death - the maximum tariff - and to an additional nine months for driving with a false licence. Her latest appeal has been unsuccessful, and it is expected that she will enter prison in the next few days.
Transport
Call for immobiliser system to stop drunk drivers
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We need to open up for self driving cars. And support the development of the needed AI technology. We will never get alcolocks on every car on the road.
Behind bars for a few years makes a good immobiliser.
A maximum sentence of 4 years for killing someone whilst drunk driving is just not long enough. A car, in the hands of a sober person, never mind a drunk one, is potentially a lethal weapon. The bereaved family have a life sentence of grief. The guilty party should receive a life sentence too. In jail.