TBH I’d prepare for the worst – not so much prison but looking for another job that doesn’t involve driving…
that said, are their friendly people at work you can discuss this with?
Your offence is more that of an over-enthusiastic young man who over-estimated the cost of running a car, rather than a genuinely sociopathic crime. it wasn’t as if you had had an argument with someone and then deliberately run them over next time you saw them (people do this as there are less penalties for traffic offences than assault!)
Everyone makes mistakes in their lives and luckily you haven’t hurt anyone. If you are a valued employee at work, perhaps your employers may be prepared to cut you some slack? If not then look at it this way, they could just as easily have dumped you at any time due to downsizing/recession so its worth doing the job hunt..
if you don’t have to travel to sites etc, maybe its not as difficult to get to your work via other ways of transport than driving (unless of course you genuinely work out in the sticks, as a “London incomer” I appreciate how spread out East Anglia is!)
Incidentally the cops round here give the impression they will use every power possible to “take ravers off the roads” for traffic offences if they can, (when you attend a rave your car reg number gets put on a database and they then watch it for any further offences)
the authorities here aren’t daft and know that in East Anglia the rave scene depends on people being able to drive fairly long distances..
