[Newsbot]

Title: Motorist fined $85 for fatal crash
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-12-04 21:29:53
Canadian

[saturn_656]

I got a bigger fine for forgetting my drivers licence at home.

[martin14]

looks like the value of a human life in Canada has dropped to a new low.


$85 ?

I paid more by losing a toll ticket on the highway,
and coming to the booth with out.
That is a maximum 77euro charge.

[Brenda]

Renewal of your driverslicense is about the same.

[ASLplease]

will the family now be able to sue the driver's insurance company in civil court?

[EyeBrock]

An admission of gulit in a Provincial Court is golden for civil litigation.
He will get six points and the insurance company's take a dim view of a Careless conviction. His rates will double.

What a joke though $85 fine for Careless when somebody is killed. The JP needs to be kicked in the slats.

The courts are fucked.

[QBall]

ASLplease ASLplease:

will the family now be able to sue the driver's insurance company in civil court?

Well, no, you would sue the driver/owner of the vehicle. Their insurer would pay to defend them. If you were to sue the insurance company you would have to prove the insurance company caused the accident.

[wildrosegirl]

$1:

It's believed the SUV driver, Samjin Ham, was following behind a van and may not have seen Rocca's car until it was too late.

In other words - it was an accident. That's why they're called accidents. All the family wanted was to ensure that their lost loved one was in no way blamed. They weren't looking to hang anyone. They got it.

I don't see a problem with this.

[saturn_656]

wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:

I don't see a problem with this.

I think you're about the only one who doesn't.

[EyeBrock]

A conviction of 'careless driving' means it wasn't an accident.

It was a collision caused by the accused driving on a highway without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the highway.

Motor vehicle collisions are nearly always caused by negligence or piss poor driving.

Accidents are caused.

[OnTheIce]

wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:

$1:

It's believed the SUV driver, Samjin Ham, was following behind a van and may not have seen Rocca's car until it was too late.

In other words - it was an accident. That's why they're called accidents. All the family wanted was to ensure that their lost loved one was in no way blamed. They weren't looking to hang anyone. They got it.

I don't see a problem with this.

An accident because the victim was driving a car that broke down and didn't safely clear the road and left his car hanging onto a highway and he got nailed.

There's fault on both sides of the argument.

It's easy to sit here and say the guy's a tool for hitting a parked car, but when you're flying along and the car in front of you moves to avoid someone parked on the highway, you have a fraction of a second to react.

[saturn_656]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

It's easy to sit here and say the guy's a tool for hitting a parked car, but when you're flying along and the car in front of you moves to avoid someone parked on the highway, you have a fraction of a second to react.

If thats the case, then he was following the car in front of him too closely.

He is at fault.