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Originally Posted by amber
That article wasn't very explicative. What was the judge's rationale? Or is that the standard sentence for a hit and run death causer?
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It depends if it's decided that you were driving "dangerously". If you're convicted of causing death by dangerous driving, you can get up to 14 years. But this guy apparently wasn't driving erratically, so he only gets convicted of failing to stop, failing to report an accident and driving without insurance or a licence. The judge was upset by all accounts, and he asked for the law to be changed, but he felt he couldn't sentence the guy to any longer in prison.
So someone who never even took the trouble to take a driving test, never bothered with insurance and thinks it's OK to leave a child dying in the road after you've run her over - gets 3 months in prison. He sounds like one of the most dangerous people in the country to me - and he should be glad it wasn't any child of mine that he killed.
The other insult was that he was banned from driving for 5 years - this is a man who wasn't even licenced to drive in the first place! A 5 year ban isn't really going to bother him, is it? Chop his bloody legs off, see how well he can drive after that, the b****rd
