Late last year, a mother lost her youngest child, 18-year-old Tyler Dean, to a hit and run driver.
Months later, the man who allegedly killed her son is out of jail and back behind the wheel, ‘driving around like it didn’t matter’.
Tyler was riding his motorised bike along a country road in Victoria in October last year when he was allegedly hit by 21-year-old Billy-Jay Glynn, Nine News reported.
Tyler Dean (right) was killed in a hit and run while he was riding his motorised bike on a country road in October last year
21-year-old Billy-Jay Glynn (pictured) was charged over the alleged hit and run and bailed. He was allowed to keep his license
Glynn was charged with dangerous driving causing death and failing to stop after a collision.
He was released on bail, forced to surrender his passport, but allowed to keep his license.
Jeynelle Dean told Nine News the family lived in a small town and often saw the man and his family behind the wheel.
‘We live in a small town and we see the person who was driving the car that night and we see his family just driving around like it didn’t matter,’ she said.
‘This guy’s got a potentially deadly weapon on four wheels,’ Tyler’s stepfather, Josh Hayes, said.
Tyler’s mother says she often sees her son’s alleged killer driving around, and believes he should not be allowed to do so
Ms Dean has started an online petition demanding drivers charged over hit and runs lose their license until the matter finished going through court.
In the document, she notes that drink drivers and excessive speeders will automatically lost their license, but laments the difference in law for those accused of hitting someone and driving off.
‘You can kill someone with your car, drive off and leave your innocent victim’s broken, dead or dying body laying by the side of the road – and you get to walk away, live your life, have a child, celebrate birthdays and Christmases for up to, or over, a year whilst the courts process the case,’ she wrote.
‘It’s hard enough that we have to live without our beautiful son, but our pain is so much worse when we see the driver nonchalantly living his life in our small town, whilst we have lost so much.’
Tyler’s mother and stepfather have launched a petition to see drivers charged with hit and run offences have their licenses taken away until they complete the court process
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