What should she be charged with?

[Benton]

(07-08-2015, 01:43 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: The bigger point was that there shouldn't be a distinction in whatever she is or isn't charged with due to what he happened to be driving, not with her intent, so I drew a bad comparison with my hypothetical.

I agree. There shouldn't be a distinction, but that leads us to two different sides.

If you hit a car parked at a light, you pay the damages. If you injure the person in the car, you may have to pay compensation. You wouldn't be charged with battery or assault. No crime has been committed just by the act of being a bad driver.

I don't agree with changing the standard and making it a crime because he was on a vehicle that offered less protection.

(07-08-2015, 01:46 PM)djs7685 Wrote: It's not an accident when you hit a stationary object with a moving vehicle.

If you're operating a vehicle, pay attention. If you aren't paying attention for ANY reason, then it's 100% your fault and you should face the consequences of anything that happens as a result of your dumbass-ness.

If she wasn't reacting quick enough to stop in time, it's her fault. If you have "bad depth perception" then you shouldn't be allowed to operate a machine that weighs thousands of pounds capable of reaching high speeds.

This is pretty cut and dry. You don't hit a non-moving object if you're paying attention and are mentally capable of driving a car. Unless she hit a patch of ice in July, there's no legitimate excuse for this.

Sure it is. Every day in every town across the country somebody gets into a wreck because they didn't push the break fast enough, they didn't negotiate a turn correctly, the car accelerated/decelerated at an unexpected rate, they didn't see something that was there. Just last night here we had heavy rains. A young woman was driving through a curve went off the road into a ditch and the car overturned. She drowned.

You're saying she intentionally drove into the ditch? Go on, pull the other one.

If accidentally having a collision is a crime, the majority of the country would be incarcerated at some point in their lives.