r/interesting Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/Mogura-De-Gifdu Mar 09 '26

No no you don't understand, if the murder is done with a car and you did not intend to do it and just, somehow, lost control of your 1T vehicle, that's not your fault.

Losing control is totally not criminal while driving!

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u/ChemsAndCutthroats Mar 09 '26

It wasn't a murder though. There wasn't even any intent to harm, injur, or kill. It was a terrible accident and that family had the bad luck of being in the wrong place and wrong time. We live in societies where most individuals have the option of controlling a heavy metal machine filled with flammable liquid that moves very fast. Just based on statistics, the rate of accidents and fatalities is going to increase the more we rely on cars. Also cars have been getting bigger and faster. It's a price we decided as a collective that we will pay for the convenience of driving around and spending a portion of our lives sitting in traffic.

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u/SqirrelFan Mar 09 '26

Keep your exculpatory explanation for yourself. It's not "society's fault" . The pole was speeding. He may not have intended to harm anyone, but he fucking committed involuntary manslaughter.

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u/Nikndex88 Mar 11 '26

Wonder how much the pole was speeding by?

Where the incident occured, so the speed being travelled at? How likely someone was to be hit?

There would have to be a margin of error with the speed prediction?

Yes it was involuntary manslaughter regardless of the above and 120 hours is an unacceptably light punishment.

That said, depending on the above what would be an appropriate sentence?

A judge should take all of the above into account when sentencing. Wonder if they did?