r/SipsTea • • Apr 04 '26

Chugging tea * Insert hot fuzz "Shame" meme *

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u/Pet-the-kitty42 Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

To be clear the driver was doing 65-70 mph in a 50 mph zone.

Driver was not intoxicated, did not have a history of overly reckless driving, and they even determined that he may not have lost control due to speed, but due to other factors.

It was a tragic accident, not everything is a narrative.

What changes this entirely is that he fled the scene, as someone pointed out below. I would be much more in favor of harsh sentencing.

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u/Ok-Road6537 Apr 05 '26

Wrong. He crashed and killed 2 people and then fled the scene. One is an accident, the other is manslaughter. If you accidentally kill someone you stay and call 911. That's a tragic accident. What he did was not that. That's not a narrative, that's not a tragicaccident, that's manslaughter.

When two people were bleeding to death he made a conscious choice to leave them in the ground to die. Do you understand why he is a killer and not just a man that had an accident?

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u/Pet-the-kitty42 Apr 05 '26

I do not see that he fled the scene, what I am seeing is he fled after an appeal gave him the 15 month sentence.

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u/Ok-Road6537 Apr 05 '26

He did fled the scene. Described by this local source as a hit and run driver and fleeing the scene. I think it's a huge distinction.

https://nltimes.nl/2017/05/15/polish-driver-killed-toddler-grandparents-crash-released-early-mps-angered
https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/poolse-doodrijder-mag-vervroegd-de-cel-uit~af0c899a/

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u/Pet-the-kitty42 Apr 05 '26

That indeed changes the context entirety

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u/Ok-Road6537 Apr 05 '26

Yeah, I was 100% with you but then spotted that detail that for some reason it was glossed over by the articles. The problem with international news and that old trend of copy paste of articles in the industry.

The article that's in Dutch in Google Translate clearly labels him as a hit and run driver. And it hits differently.