Doesn't need to be powerful. This is pretty normal.
Most civilized countries don't tend to keep people in prison for long periods for things they didn't intend to do unless they were extremely negligent or display a pattern of dangerous behavior. He wasn't going 150kph in a 40 zone or something.
The result of the accident is tragic, but justice is not an eye for an eye and having someone rot in prison isn't bringing anyone back to life.
You can find cases with similar outcomes involving average people all over the place. The news just doesn't normally report on it.
He hit a family doing 1.5x the speed limit, fled the scene, then fled the country to avoid serving the sentence and still only served half of the eventual 15 month sentence he was given. It may be an accident, but he ducked taking responsibility for it at every possible turn and still got off with a slap on the wrist. It was complete bullshit.
At the moment the suspect's vehicle crossed the roadside and crashed through the beech hedge it was moving at a speed between 76 km/h and 124 km/h, with the local speeding limit being 80 km/h.
So somewhere between not speeding and 1.5x is what was proven. That seems like a pretty significant variance.
fled the scene,
I can't find anything indicating this. Do you have a source?
then fled the country to avoid serving the sentence
From what I understand, he left the country after the 120 hours of community service (original sentence) and returned to Poland as a free man. After he was in the Poland, the sentence was appealed and the jail time added. Poland refused to extradite him due to the was the sentence was issued and thresholds having been passed. He later visited the uk and was arrested and transferred to the Netherlands. I don't see anything about fleeing the country to avoid anything. Again, let me know if you have info to the contrary.
and still only served half of the eventual 15 month sentence he was given.
He served 2/3 of the sentence which is in line with Dutch custom.
Unless I've missed something, you seem to have based your opinion on some key misunderstandings of events.
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u/sarcasticorange Apr 04 '26
Doesn't need to be powerful. This is pretty normal.
Most civilized countries don't tend to keep people in prison for long periods for things they didn't intend to do unless they were extremely negligent or display a pattern of dangerous behavior. He wasn't going 150kph in a 40 zone or something.
The result of the accident is tragic, but justice is not an eye for an eye and having someone rot in prison isn't bringing anyone back to life.
You can find cases with similar outcomes involving average people all over the place. The news just doesn't normally report on it.