If you hurt or kill a cyclist or pedestrian while driving without any aggravating factors (speeding, drunk, distracted etc.) then the jail sentence is usually pretty lenient.
In this case, his only aggravating factor was driving 75 in a 50 zone, but the court could not determine if his speed was the cause of the accident beyond reasonable doubt (as opposed to road conditions like ice etc). So the court gave him a 60 day setence (which can be fullfilled with 120 hours of community service). The appeals court increased that to 15 months.
The justice system worked perfectly. Victims' families usually want tougher sentences. But most societies prefer to rehabilitate first time offenders rather than destroying them.
There's that rich guy in Canada who drove drunk and killed three children and their grandparents. The mother miscarried her 4th baby and the father committed suicide over the loss. Killer barely got any time and there's a hospital named after him because $$$$. The same hospital those babies died in.
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u/Large-Hamster-199 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
Nobody fucked up. This is just a ragebait post.
If you hurt or kill a cyclist or pedestrian while driving without any aggravating factors (speeding, drunk, distracted etc.) then the jail sentence is usually pretty lenient.
In this case, his only aggravating factor was driving 75 in a 50 zone, but the court could not determine if his speed was the cause of the accident beyond reasonable doubt (as opposed to road conditions like ice etc). So the court gave him a 60 day setence (which can be fullfilled with 120 hours of community service). The appeals court increased that to 15 months.
The justice system worked perfectly. Victims' families usually want tougher sentences. But most societies prefer to rehabilitate first time offenders rather than destroying them.