Comment 87446

By alhambra (anonymous) | Posted March 21, 2013 at 19:35:33 in reply to Comment 87444

It's troubling to dispense with proof the way you want. The risk is putting people away who were neither reckless or negligent. I'm also sure there would be lots of situations where both parties behave legally yet accidents still happen. A delivery truck blocks the view of the crosswalk; the crosswalk was badly designed; the driver experienced a seizure.

I'm also not sure it matters that the victim is a pedestrian. A dumptruck can roll through a red light and kill a carload and similarly not be found criminally guilty.

There is a standard of departure from an objective standard that defines negligence. That standard needs to be defined increasingly in the favour of safe conduct. Yet this is impossible to change until the street design correlates to safety.

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