Chop Jock - who knows why the bin man took the risk - maybe his "good reason" was a fear of being unemployed / unemployable with a family to provide for? The point is, he made a conscious decision to drive even though he shouldn't have been doing it, as Dave did to fly, when both in reality had other options.
This case wasn't just about this one incident of risk-taking though, was it? At least four illegal flights, (most of which did not involve immediate threat to life) document falsification, flying without a medical which invalidated his licence and therefore insurance and trying to hide the facts from the CAA ( sorry "playing down his role").
Even Dave said the prosecution " had to happen". For me, IF he had been the only pilot available on the day, and IF he had no previous, and IF he had been told implicitly that this casualty will die if you don't fly then he might have (should have) come out of this relatively unscathed. As it was .......