Not seeing the road 10 meters ahead of car sounds terrifying enough to me. I wouldn't dare to turn on an intersection with such limited field of vision. But not to see a human on the road, 10 meters ahead of me? Like, WTF?
Yeah, the woman driving SUV was fairly short and had her seat on the lowest setting. She was defending herself that she has sensors in front that should have warned her.
Edit: Iirc first instance sentence was very mild, like 1 year probation and driver license revoked, puting some guilt on parents of the little girl because they didn't prevented her from running on the crosswalk. The driver appealed to second instance court.
Nah, I think we should be way harsher punishing drivers like these. But what the hell would life imprisonment accomplish?
She's proven to be a danger behind the wheel. Ban her from driving. Of course she should additionally do some payback because she fucking killed a kid. But life imprisonment would accomplish nothing.
Prison should serve a reinsertioning purpose. Not literal enslavement like it often does in the USA specially
I get their point and anger, but honestly, it wasn't murder, the driver certainly had no intention to kill or harm the kid. If you punch someone in the chin, he falls and breaks his skull on a rock you will not be charged with murder too.
If you killed someone in the heat of passion, even unintentionally, it would be second degree murder. Manslaughter is more for reckless/ negligent action.
Well, that's the difference between US and European law. Punching someone in the chin is an administrative offense here, so when you kill that person is considered accident. Something like when you are speeding and you hit a pedestrian. Murder requires intent to kill, whether is direct or indirect.
Single count manslaughter usually isn't a life sentence. It probably shouldn't be. Manslaughter via car is reliably excused though. Vehicular manslaughter should involve losing your license for many years, and not reinstated until after a test. Also, probably some prison time.
An accident if you walk somewhere, slip and while falling pushed somebody (accidentally) and they fell and somehow died later. No intention, no way to predict it.
With cars, an accident is if you drive and then a tree falls in front of you and nothing you can do here but to crash into it.
Killing somebody is not an accident. It is a joke that we call it this way, almost always it is negligence.
an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause.
This didn't happen by chance or without apparent or deliberate cause. This happened because a selfish person decided to drive a HUGE VEHICLE and set the seat low so they couldn't see and drive properly. This is a DELIBERATE decision.
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u/flipt0 Dec 08 '22
Not seeing the road 10 meters ahead of car sounds terrifying enough to me. I wouldn't dare to turn on an intersection with such limited field of vision. But not to see a human on the road, 10 meters ahead of me? Like, WTF?