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I hear you. I am 100% an advocate for better street design.
What I'm trying to tell you that it's more complicated than you're making it out to be. Especially in this specific instance. And yes, it may have been made to sheer off but that doesn't really change they were going I believe 70+ in a resedential area. There are muni tracks in the middle of the road which makes it quite wide and it's a big long curve.
Honestly and truly I believe the driver must have had a momentary old person 'black out' just slammed on the gas and was essentially unconscious. We'll never truly know. Putting up a concrete barrier could have prevented this. But I would never look at the exact stretch and direction of road and think, yes, this is going to be a hazard. Obviously it was and needs to change, but my point is that the driver here is at fault and should never be behind a wheel again.
The city immediately after this made a bunch of changes to the area. Changes I imagine they'd been wanting to make for a while. But the changes never impacted the direction / route this car was going. So that makes no sense to me. They fixed nothing that would have changed what happened here.
Thats fair, and there are some odd things to me as an outsider.
What does it mean the licence is suspended 3 years? Does she just get it back after 3 years? That's ridiculous and just increases skill fade. Assuming 3 years is the correct punishement; should it not be a removal of licence with the ability to restart at the beginning of the graduated licence after 3 years?
Also, there was ~2 years from incident to sentencing. I guess that's a reasonable delay for a case this complex? But is this person just driving around in the interim? Are there a bunch of people jsut driving around awaiting trial and or sentencing?
This isn't meant to just shit on the Californian system, in my own town of Kingston, ON; a driver ran over and killed a cyclist with witnesses; but the police just didn't file the charges in time so there was zero consequence. https://www.thewhig.com/feature/kingston-ontario-cyclist-fatality-police
It's I believe insane. They were able to keep driving while awaiting sentencing, and it just gets reinstated once the suspension is up. I thought it couldn't be this on both counts, and was wrong. God things with cars are so fucking insane.