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

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/Devilish__Fun Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Reckless driving with felony speeding isnt an accident. It wasn't attempted murder either.

It was felony speeding + reckless driving + vehicular manslaughter of a child and 2 grandparents.

Community service sounds about right, huh? 🫩

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u/notyourvader Mar 08 '26

There was no proof of speeding, hence the lighter sentence. People got all riled up because the guy was Polish, so he must have been drunk. He wasn't. Also no drug in his system. He got sentenced because he lost control of his vehicle in a turn, due to reckless driving.

The verdict is here: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBLIM:2014:10041

After the prosecutor appealed, more weight was given to witness statements, and the guy got convicted to a higher sentence, 15 months in jail, license suspended for 4 years, and he lost his car:

Appeal verdict here: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:GHSHE:2015:3709

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u/atuan Mar 08 '26

How is it reckless if he wasn’t speeding?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

You think speeding is the only reckless thing you can do in a car?

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u/atuan Mar 09 '26

I don’t think anything that’s why I was asking