perseus
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Although this is illegal in the UK and he was involved in a pile up which had fatalities, it was nothing to do with the accident itself since the text message was completed several minutes beforehand, and the accident was no fault of his. The Judge said "It's clear the dangerous driving had no causal link to the accident."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7909510.stm
This interests me since I have just finished a book about a University lecturer who was jailed for dangerous driving resulting in 3 fatalities. In his case it was just 2 seconds of inattention whilst fumbling in his coat as recorded by a camera.
Whilst in both cases the guilty verdict is clearly correct, inattention whilst driving is surely something most drivers are guilty of at one time or another. These people were just unlucky enough to be in a subsequent fatal accident.
So is the law an ass, and should sentences be in accordance with intent rather than the consequences? This means that either these guys shouldn't be sent to jail, or that perhaps most of us should have.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7909510.stm
This interests me since I have just finished a book about a University lecturer who was jailed for dangerous driving resulting in 3 fatalities. In his case it was just 2 seconds of inattention whilst fumbling in his coat as recorded by a camera.
Whilst in both cases the guilty verdict is clearly correct, inattention whilst driving is surely something most drivers are guilty of at one time or another. These people were just unlucky enough to be in a subsequent fatal accident.
So is the law an ass, and should sentences be in accordance with intent rather than the consequences? This means that either these guys shouldn't be sent to jail, or that perhaps most of us should have.
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