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If Luigi had killed that CEO with a car he'd be free right now (lemmy.world)

submitted 22 hours ago by DrunkEngineer to c/fuckcars

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

This would apply for using a car as a weapon as well and courts do go after these cases in practice, of sniping a target with a car.

Unless the driver admitted to wanting to kill someone on purpose with their car, the grey area between "I didn't see them" to "I don't know what happened." makes it so that drivers are often only given a citation for a traffic violation (i.e. not stopping at a stop sign), if the victim is lucky enough for that level of "justice".

It's very rare to see a driver be convicted of anything beyond vehicular manslaughter, including when you have a history of driving offences, and run off like a coward after running over a cyclist.

edit: grammar

[–] Aurix 3 points 14 hours ago

With a random killing you might get indeed away, but murders are usually targeted. In case a deadly accident happens, and it can be proven the driver had a conflict with that person, it does turn the case around.