Il padre di Boy (8) ucciso da pericoloso autista in sughero sollecita gli automobilisti a essere vigile
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41576785.html
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Il padre di Boy (8) ucciso da pericoloso autista in sughero sollecita gli automobilisti a essere vigile
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41576785.html
di PoppedCork
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The verdict is a joke. Three years sentence and third year suspended for killing. What a load of absolute BS.
Crossing at a green man, driver runs the red light and kills him. Gets 3 years with the final year suspended for robbing a little boy of 70 or 80 years of his life, and sentencing his parents to live the rest of theirs with the memory of watching their little boy get milled down.
Oh, and he was disqualified from driving. For 6 years.
Joke.
I firmly believe that there needs to be a change in the charging/prosecuting law & sentencing law (or whatever the official terminology is for it) for killing someone with a vehicle.
Too many pedestrians are being killed. The potential for a much higher sentence could likely save at least some lives. More drivers might think twice before getting into the car tired, or distracted, or angry, or whatever other condition that impairs their ability to safely & appropriately operate their vehicle.
Edit to add: I often think of [this case where a man received an 18 month sentence for killing a 7 year old child with a road sweeper](https://www.thejournal.ie/driver-who-killed-child-had-previously-caused-death-of-pedestrian-6228397-Nov2023/), who had already received a 6 month suspended sentence for careless driving causing the death of a pedestrian in a separate incident. The pedestrian was killed only 9 months before the child.
This begins by actually cracking down on people running red lights.
As someone has almost been run over twice in the last few years while crossing at green lights, I check both ways a few times