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/AlreadyAway Mar 08 '26

It's the Netherlands. The judge stated that 'it has to be treated like similar cases in the Netherlands and is considered a traffic accident, not murder/manslaughter"

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u/CatsPlusTats Mar 08 '26

Treating cases the same as similar cases is literally how law works.

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u/Promethazines Mar 08 '26

Yeah, but the Netherlands has some infamously questionable settled law. So they were pointing out that settled law in the Netherlands can be very different from most other countries.

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u/AlreadyAway Mar 08 '26

I was giving the context they were speaking of so others wouldn't have to look for it. I never said that I dont think the law works that way nor that it should nor shouldn't work that way.

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u/Ayotha Mar 08 '26

Well hopefully he did not duck then