I think the threshold for licence removal is two families
80 years old and doing 70 mph / 115kph in a residential area. What the fuck. Under no circumstances should she have been left with her license. She’s a danger to society.
Murder is illegal unless committed with a car. In my country we have “vehicle murder” which carries a shorter sentence than a 1st degree voluntary murder but it’s still ≈10 years behind bars. The US should do something similar
We do sort of have that. It’s called manslaughter. Under normal circumstances, this woman would have been charged with several counts of manslaughter and would be in prison with her license revoked.
She was charged with 4 counts of gross vehicular manslaughter, and she pled guilty; she just isn’t being punished.
This is the type of situation that mandatory minimum sentences are meant for.
Fully agree. Discretion needs to be removed from those who leave this kind of thing unpunished.
I believe where I live those mandatory sentences are merely guidelines for judges though. Their word is law.
balance the deaths with the other factors of the case, including … and her remorse
What remorse, she didn’t even plead guilty.
And I wonder how much the victims being Brazilian impacted the sentence.
You don’t understand, walker, cars have more right than you do. It’s their fault for not being born as the advanced race of cars.
im not surprised its a mercedes driver. worst than bmw drivers, they often try to pull insurance fraud scams.
worst than bmw drivers
Ah c’mon now. That’s going too far.
I’d love to know what the stats are.
Edit: finding it difficult to get raw numbers but I did come across this little nugget:
BMWs are coveted cars, but their owners earned the particularly poor distinction of being most likely to drive under the influence. “BMW drivers had 3.13 DUIs per 1,000 drivers
Link.
When the system fails, delivering justice becomes a duty of the people.
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