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Very few are okay with this. Hence the laws and speed limits.
You can read this in the title of the video. The man was charged with a crime.
Because he killed someone. People drive like maniacs all the time and people defend it and change the subject to blaming pedestrians on their phones. People do dangerous things in their cars all the time.
And they are arrested and charged if caught.
We all know that isn't true most of the time.
Do you have any data whatsoever? Or is this more truthiness type stuff?
I mean, I've literally watched people violate traffic laws all the damn time and suffer no consequences.
Here's 45 minutes at a single Montréal intersection. 61 motor vehicle infractions, 1 bicycle infraction, zero tickets.
Take a look at any non congested highway and see how many speeding infractions their are; rarely unforced (at my last job I conducted about 1,000 speeding infractions per year, and recieved zero tickets).
Here's an article on thecorrelation between reducing traffic enforcement and leathality of roadways.
You’re missing the point. And a lot of times people aren’t changed when they kill someone with their car.
Please elaborate your point then. Of course if it was an accident with no negligence a person isn't going to be charged nor should they.
Here are some links that show little to no punishment when the driver is clearly in the wrong.
https://apnews.com/article/fort-wayne-officer-guilty-fatal-pedestrian-crash-b55bc9b42a4a3923e367573db432872a
https://www.channel3000.com/news/driver-who-hit-killed-longtime-educator-in-fitchburg-wont-face-criminal-charges/article_b698ea76-5d7a-11ee-bbbe-2bc30227ede9.html