Why do we not prosecute dangerous driving that results in injury or death? | Singletrack Magazine

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None of us would light a bonfire under a child’s climbing frame while they climbed, or fill a friend’s kitchen with buckets of petrol while they cooked bacon, or place landmines in the park near the “please do not walk on the grass” signs. Yet so many are casually willing (sometimes not even casually) to use vehicles to do exactly the same thing: to elevate the price of error or misfortune, whether caused by the victim or a third party or sheer bad luck, so far that it becomes someone’s life. . . .

The matter of who made a small error starts to look vanishingly irrelevant in situations where it is quite clear that a specific person’s actions converted that error from inconsequential to serious or fatal. And, when one starts to consider analogous scenarios, the casual ignorance or wilful rejection of this notion seems practically unique to road collisions.

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Why do we not prosecute dangerous driving that results in injury or death? | Singletrack Magazine

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