There’s an old joke among American lawyers that if you’re going to murder someone in America, do it with your car. But it’s not really a joke, because the cops will 100% assume it was just an accident, and prosecutors will refuse to bring any charges.
12 out of 12 jurors will be drivers. They will not convict another driver for being distracted because they also do it all the time. Prosecutors know this and don’t wan to waste time on pointless cases.
Well, as the article’s headline tells us, it was a “bike crash”. Probably be charges laid posthumously so that the motorist can sue for civil damages. (Modulo being killed, this happened to someone I know; hit by a car in the bike lane, had to pay for the car’s damage.)
WTF?!
There’s an old joke among American lawyers that if you’re going to murder someone in America, do it with your car. But it’s not really a joke, because the cops will 100% assume it was just an accident, and prosecutors will refuse to bring any charges.
what happened to the good old man-slaughter which should also apply in cases of accidents
12 out of 12 jurors will be drivers. They will not convict another driver for being distracted because they also do it all the time. Prosecutors know this and don’t wan to waste time on pointless cases.
It’s not the driver that kills, it’s the car. How are you going to assign man-slaughter charges to an inanimate object?
PS: The inverse is true for guns tho.
it was just a little accident. haven’t you ever bumped into someone by mistake before?
jeez, before are so uptight about this, it’s not a big deal, just a harmless little accident
“Traffic collision”. ‘Accident’ implies no one’s to blame.
If anything, it was the cyclists/pedestrians fault for traveling unprotected by a car. /s
Well, as the article’s headline tells us, it was a “bike crash”. Probably be charges laid posthumously so that the motorist can sue for civil damages. (Modulo being killed, this happened to someone I know; hit by a car in the bike lane, had to pay for the car’s damage.)