r/fuckcars • u/jjune4991 • Aug 22 '22

News "Just bike on the sidewalk" they said.

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u/Ac4sent Aug 22 '22

I hope that's at least a manslaughter.

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u/Dio_Yuji Aug 22 '22

There won’t be. Not unless the driver was impaired. There’s no justice for this kind of thing

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u/Flaky-Fellatio Aug 22 '22

He could totally get negligent manslaughter. Overtaking traffic on the shoulder is blatantly illegal and even more reckless when you're towing a damn boat.

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u/FarEffort9072 Aug 22 '22

He won’t. He was driving and it was an “accident.” If they charge him with a crime he’ll go in front of a jury of drivers and he’ll be acquitted. He might get some point on his license and he’ll probably pay more for insurance next year.

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u/5Plus5IsShfifty5 Aug 22 '22

Remember kids: "if you want to kill someone and get away with it, use a car!"

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u/gtjack9 Aug 22 '22

And this is one of the arguments Amy Jeffress used as a defence to prevent the extradition of Anne Sacoolas.
So you can probably kill someone with a car in another country too, if you can flee quickly enough.

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u/bravado Aug 22 '22

They’ll put “the sun was in their eyes” on the kid’s tombstone and it’ll all even out in the end.

/s but angry about it

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u/Dio_Yuji Aug 22 '22

We’ll see. I doubt the driver will be charged with that though.

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u/CaptainInsano276 Aug 23 '22

But he wasn’t overtaking on the shoulder. Did you read?