I wonder if you can say Jason Peters is lucky. He's the drink-driver who crashed his car into another vehicle while travelling at speed returning from a duck-shooting weekend.
He survived with barely a scratch while the woman in the car he hit was in a coma forweeks and is fighting to overcome brain damage. I guess that makes him lucky. He ran and hid after the accident, leaving Michelle Davies to be cut from her vehicle. It was lucky for him the judge accepted he was injured and in shock.
I see him as a gutless prick trying to escape the consequences of his drink-driving, but then I wasn't sitting on the bench.
And in a final piece of luck, Peters was ordered to pay nearly $29,000 in reparation and sentenced to 12 months' home detention, rather than being sent to prison.
Time in jail would have been tough, especially for a former cop.
So it was decided he be allowed to sit at home and do his time. Oh, and he was disqualified from driving for two years. Two years. What a bummer.
So he sits on his beautiful property for a year and two years later can drive out of his gateway, and his life will go on.
Three hundred and sixty-five days from now, Michelle Davies will still be struggling to hold her life and her family together, still suffering from the effects of the crash.
People tell her she's lucky to be alive. Lucky? I think we all know who the lucky one is.
