Should this cop be jailed for what seems pretty obviously an accident? On average, over 100 people die per day in car crashes in the USA. Someone's screw up cost someone else their life. Unless the driver is impaired or obliterating a speed limit, most drivers who kill someone don't face any criminal charges.
Exactly.
People are sent to prison for accidents all the time. Have you two ever heard of negligent homicide or manslaughter?
Not for accidents. At least our laws aren't supposed to place such cases within the criminal court system. If someone goes to jail for a car wreck where someone is injured or killed, there's usually drugs or alcohol involved, or other reckless or malicious conduct.
You are dumb as a brick. You accidentally miss seeing a stop sign and kill someone, you have committed negligent homicide
Uh yep!
A local case here a few years ago.
A young father was driving the station wagon to town one day with six or seven of his kids, nieces, and nephews and his wife along for the ride. The driver was a devout Morman. He did not even drink coffee, and he was not speeding.
The kids got to screwing around in the back of the station wagon and the driver took his eyes off the road and looked into the rear view mirror as he scolded them.
Just at that moment he crested a hill with a car sitting square in the road in front of him. He rear ended the car at about fifty miles an hour.
Within the car was a young couple engaged to soon be married. They were sitting in the road waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so they could make a left turn. They had the steering wheel cranked to the stop to the left in preparation for the turn.
At impact, they were pushed into the left lane, directly into the path of an oncoming van. Both of the young lovers were killed.
The driver of the station wagon was jailed for his "mistake". His family went on welfare.
Perfect example of negligent homicide. Definitely an accident and unintentional
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