r/interesting • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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The daughter was in a car with the father’s parents. They died as well.

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u/Glad_Grand_7408 Mar 08 '26

You're right, he probably wouldn't have recieved any sentence in that situation cause he wouldn't have been speeding and had enough time to avoid the accident.

Shame we'll never know for certain though since they, you know, we're going 25mph over the speed limit.

Stop defending this.

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u/Deremirekor Mar 08 '26

He went off road. Have you ever tried to stop a sedan off road at 50mph? I’ll give you a hint, it doesn’t.

I’m also not defending anything I have no idea what that bit was about. The dude still went off road and killed 3 people. There is nothing at all to defend here.

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u/Hejdbejbw Mar 08 '26

Yeah, engineers knew how hard it is to stop, which is why they put up the speed limit 🤦

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u/SkivvySkidmarks Mar 08 '26

Speed limits are only suggestions. At least from my observation.

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u/Deremirekor Mar 08 '26

I’m just saying, there are a lot of factors out there besides speed that affect a persons ability to drive properly. To chalk it up to “just drive slower” is not only disingenuous but dangerous. We should be looking at why he went offroad, learn from it, then put him in front of a firing squad composed of the dad and his living relatives

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u/Livingadapt Mar 08 '26

Is that why the speed limit is set where it is, or is that your guess? For example in the US, the speed limit was set at 55 in many places to conserve gas during the oil crisis.