I know that junction and how she'd have to have made the turn.
If she can't see a bike at over 100m, she needs a white stick and a Labrador!!
She did *not* look three times.
The crime is the action not the consequence.
So you won't mind if I stab your kid through the face and walk away with a slapped wrist and £50 fine for the action of "carrying an offensive weapon in a public place" then, yeh?
Fortunately, in most cases, this is not how the law works.
If we don't maintain our assets as agreed, we get a few grand fine.
If those unmaintained assets fail and pollute a river, we get fined MILLIONS.
If those assets fail and we derail a train, we'd be bankrupted by just one of the hundreds of compensation claims that would result.
If you're hauled up in front of a judge, you answer for your offense it is the consequences you're punished for.
If it were the actions, then what would be the point in making something illegal?
Things are illegal because of the consequences your actions resulted in, not the actions themselves. Actions are only the driver, punished to try and disuade the future reoccurrence of the consequences.
And of course everything is driven by emotion, including our own moral sense of right and wrong, which is what gave rise to crimes and laws in the first place. Logic has nothing to do with it.
And if you want to ignore everything we know about being human. then you better just ban cars to start with. As everyone has the same lapse of judgment, just that 99.99% of the time, it results in nothing.
That same 'lapse of judgement' when pulling out of junctions and roundabouts is the cause of the "87% of motorcycle crashes involving another vehicle".
Based on that, I'd say definitely ban all cars - Yer all blind!!!
1st one should both be murder. Just because one survived shouldn't mean the sentencing guidelines is any different.
So charged with murder because you *didn't* kill someone??!!
Oh-kay then...
Absolutely, however you can not improve certain things. Situational blandness is not a lack if training, its not a defect in a person. It is simply being human.
Situational Blandness?
You mean 'complacency'?
Or is my motorcycle not exciting enough for you to see?
Do you relay think a meaningful punishment for two different people both doing 35 in the same place, at same time if day. Should have such different punishments, just because someone stepped out in front of one of them and died.
No, I think we should punish them the exact same, while also doing away with Hazard Perception tests and having brakes on cars... because they're clearly not of any use, along with the sense of the jury and accident investigators to figure out that there was nothing direct to be done.
The more meaningful way to improve would get police back out on the road and prosecute for everything they see bad, no only speeding and other on the spot fines.
"Child beaten to death for littering!!
Police officers caught Little Johnny dropping a banana skin on the pavement in Newbury, today. His crime was a potentially lethal action, the consequences of which could have resulted in a death. The new 'Punish The Action' policies implemented earlier this year demand equal punishment, regardless of outcome, meaning that everyone is punished to the fullest extent of the law instead of allowing more lenient sentences for crimes that do not result in serious outcomes. Johnny was beaten to death over the course of five hours by officers armed with foam pads, which were brought in to replace guns and batons due to expensive lawsuits over police brutality"....
