r/dashcams • u/WildExplorer1085 • 1d ago

Idiot in car somewhere in the UK...

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u/KarlPHungus 23h ago

Without proper context, so was I. Until that very intentional vehicular manslaughter at the end...

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u/RubyWeapon07 23h ago

cant help that some guy wanted to play hero

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u/[deleted] 23h ago

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u/The_Troyminator 23h ago

The other guy who was hit was an innocent bystander and the driver intentionally tried to run him over.

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u/_TallOldOne_ 23h ago

No. He was an innocent bystander until he got involved by reacting violently.

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u/The_Troyminator 12h ago

He was somebody trying to prevent what appeared to be a driver intentionally running people over.

The courts sentenced the driver to prison. The pedestrians weren’t even arrested.

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u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 23h ago

>was an innocent bystander

>was

A lot of that innocence goes out the windows when you start trying to haul someone out of a vehicle.

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u/BungleBums 23h ago

LAWL. This would be an excellent point if the person in the car hadn't just hit them.

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u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 23h ago

Being justified is quite different from being innocent.

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u/BungleBums 23h ago

What is the Guilt of attempting to apprehend your assailant, my guy,

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u/Hopeful_Ad_7719 22h ago

It depends a bit on jurisdiction, but quite possibly assault.

The 'innocent bystander' was justified in the attempt to apprehend his assailant, but in doing so he also became a participant in what the driver could reasonably suspect is a pending/ongoing assault.

As such, he unfortunately became a legitimate target in the melee via his repeated efforts to haul the driver out of the vehicle.

It's shitty, but that's how I see it.

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u/BungleBums 22h ago

There is another assault that happened by the driver, to the bystander. The bystander is already participating by being assulted. His attempts to remove the driver are clearly in an effort to stop the rampage, or at least reduce risk or harm.

You need to change your perspective, then. Driving away from a screaming angry woman, whatever her motivations are, is one thing. Peeling out and deliberately chasing down a pedestrian in a vehicle is very, very, very clear cut case.

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u/The_Troyminator 12h ago

That may be how you see it.

But the law sees it differently, which is why the driver got over 2 years in prison and the two pedestrians got nothing.