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> Looking at the police report, I do wonder what the punishment would be in other countries. In the U.K. 1-2 years it seems. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
by gbuk2013 7y ago
> Looking at the police report, I do wonder what the punishment would be in other countries.
In the U.K. 1-2 years it seems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causing_death_by_dangerous_driving https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causing_death_by_dangerous_d...
Having read the facts appeal case you linked to it does not seem unreasonable (colliding with pedestrians on a marked and signed road crossing, travelling at >30mph). In the U.K. there is definitely an expectation that you slow down before a crossing.
In this case the court applied the minimum sentence and appeal rejected the victims’s side request for a harsher sentence.
The facts in the appeal case list many factors, some of which are not in favour of the driver (one pedestrian was trying to pick up the other so they were unlikely to have been lying down on the road and oncoming vehicles were flashing lights as a warning).