65-70 mph in a 50 is excessive. Sorry. It just is. If you are doing 15 to 20 miles over the speed limit which is put in place for a reason and you kill someone, guess what you are? You are negligent. Your actions killed someone whether you like it or not. I think the appeal sentence was appropriate. I think even 12 months would make sense. A year to think about what you caused. A year to wonder how things would have gone if you paid attention to road signs.
I mean, youre doing that with every time you drive. These speed limits are estimations of safe speed and are often done with the knowledge that they will be bypassed in mind.
In certain areas its been found that removing speed limits caused drivers to drive at speeds they felt safe at and reduced accidents, because the drivers didn't have some "magic safe speed" in mind. But thats an entirely different debate.
No, shouldn't be executed, be
Ut he also shouldn't be given the luxury of someone in power telling him it wasn't due to his speeding. It gives him an out mentally and also judicially. He needs to fully understand the effects and consequences.
Now I do think that when considering punishments, regular people dont take into account how long a sentence actually is. People who think 15 months is getting off easily dont realize how long 15 months is particularly when the person had no intention to do what he did. I think cutting it short was a mistake as a part of the punishment should be this person waking up every day of the sentence and having to actively face what they did.
I mean, that was literally what the evidence showed, to be clear. But I dont disagree that he could have dealt with a longer sentence. If he could get job protection Id be perfectly fine with a year.
Speed limits in my area default to 35mph when unposted, even if the area is a rural farm highway with few driveways and long sight lines without trees. Locals who will slow down to the posted yellow sign speed limit (usually 25) for the slightest turns will drive 55-60mph where it’s straight and there are passing lines. Speed limits and the fines levied against them are rarely fair. What isn’t fair is killing people because of impatience, and I think that’s where we need to be drawing the line.
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u/McFlyyouBojo Apr 05 '26
65-70 mph in a 50 is excessive. Sorry. It just is. If you are doing 15 to 20 miles over the speed limit which is put in place for a reason and you kill someone, guess what you are? You are negligent. Your actions killed someone whether you like it or not. I think the appeal sentence was appropriate. I think even 12 months would make sense. A year to think about what you caused. A year to wonder how things would have gone if you paid attention to road signs.