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Coming from an American, I'm kind of shocked that a single person accident (as I understand it) wound up in court.
by csours 6y ago
Coming from an American, I'm kind of shocked that a single person accident (as I understand it) wound up in court.
- dogma1138 6y agoPretty common around the world, especially when you have universal health care. 1) you’ve committed a traffic violation. 2) you’ve damaged property and caused a casualty even if it’s only one being yourself. You won’t always end up in court but if the accident was due to a a severe failure on your part (and wasn’t unavoidable) for example drunk driving or using a cell phone it doesn’t matter if you hit a tree or another car as far as the law goes.
- jedberg 6y ago> especially when you have universal health care. This is the key right here. It's the state trying to recoup their costs from you.
- refurb 6y agoThis doesn’t sound different than the US at all. If you get a DUI or are negligent and cause injury or accident you’ll end up in court.
- csours 6y agoI've been in several single person accidents (all of them over 10 years ago, I was a super crappy driver as a teenager) that neither the police nor the courts nor insurance ever found out about
- refurb 6y agoI’m assuming it would need to hit some threshold of property damage or injury to get on the cops radar. If you just roll your own car and get it towed away, I wouldn’t be surprised the cops never find out. Slam into someone’s house and it’s harder to cover up!
- Spooky23 6y agoWhy? You're only limited by your imagination and pocketbook. An attorney litigated a parking ticket in my city with a series of appeals that went on for like 15 years. IIRC, it was focused on the legality of designating a parking space for "official vehicles" or something like that.
- stefan_ 6y agoThis ended up in court because the driver challenged the ticket and suspension he got.