Scott Webb’s petition has already garnered more than 19,000 signatures (Credits: Scott Webb/SWNS)
A grieving dad has used an appearance on Question Time as a springboard to call for lifelong bans for drink drivers who cause fatal crashes.
Scott Webb’s son Aidan, 19, died when Tyler Wilkins, 20, crashed his car while one and a half times over the limit in December 2022.
In September, Wilkins, of Milton Keynes, Bucks., was jailed for three and a half years and handed a seven-year driving ban for the fatal crash.
Scott used a recent appearance on the BBC show to raise the issue and has since started a petition calling for lifelong bans for drink drivers who kill.
Aidan, 19, was killed when Tyler Wilkins crashed his car while one and a half times over the limit in December 2022 (Credits: James Linsell Clark/SWNS)
It has garnered more than 19,000 signatures in a matter of weeks.
“Our main aim is to introduce a law that means drivers that kill while over the limit are banned for life,” Scott, 52, of Milton Keynes, said.
“I don’t think the law is enough to prevent people at the moment.
“When Aidan’s killer comes out he will be allowed to drive again in just a few years. That doesn’t seem right to me.”
Scott raised the issue with Fiona Bruce during a recent episode of Question Time (Credits: James Linsell Clark/ SWNS)
Aidan was a passenger on the way home from watching England in the Euros when Wilkins crashed his Vauxhall Corsa.
In addition to being over the limit, several defects were also found on Wilkins’ car, including a bald tyre and faulty brakes.
He later pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.
Aylesbury Crown Court heard how Aidan died at the scene and three other passengers, all aged in their late teens, were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Reflecting on the tragedy, Scott said: ‘I just wish I had never let him out that night.
‘My last words to him were ‘have a good night, don’t let anyone drink or drive. If I could turn the clock back and take his place I would do it in a heartbeat.’
Aidan was just 19 when he life was cut tragically short (Credits: Scott Webb/SWNS)
Since the tragedy, Scott has been determined that something good can come out of it.
He added: ‘The main thing being we want to stop other families going through what we have gone through.
‘This has had such a massive impact on us. It has taken us this long to get back to somewhere we can do something like this.
‘We will never be the same again. We will never be the same people. I lost part of my life that day that will never come back.
Scott has said his son’s death changed his and his family’s life forever (Credits: James Linsell Clark/SWNS)
‘I am just not the same person.
‘I tell anyone who thinks about drink driving to think about a loved one, where you have to go and see them and you can not see their full face – …read more
Source:: Metro
