And, again, I point to American "felony murder" statutes. Maybe it's time that we adopted them also?
Yes.
And, again, I point to American "felony murder" statutes. Maybe it's time that we adopted them also?
And, again, I point to American "felony murder" statutes. Maybe it's time that we adopted them also?
Yes, but with the stunt driving laws, the amount of criminality assigned is insane:
- Immediate seven (7) day licence suspension
- Immediate seven (7) day vehicle impoundment
- Minimum fine of two thousand ($2000.00) dollars
- License suspension of up to two years
- Seven (7) demerit points
- Imprisonment for a term of not more than six (6) months
- Dramatic increase of insurance rates
- Second conviction drivers licence suspension of up to ten (10) years
6 months imprisonment for speeding 50km/h over. Meanwhile you won't see any of that for stealing motorcycles.
Something is rotten in that law. One guy is responsible for the towing and hotelling of seized vehicles for those 7 days @ $200+ a day , and he likes to show off his impressive collection of Italian sports cars.
We have a corruption problem in Ontario, and its no better than Quebec.
This issue seems to be panning out just as I suspected. A speeding ticket is not worth killing someone over:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a9096/why-high-speed-police-chases-are-going-away-15532838/
There was a day when police would shoot out your tires... literally the wild west. Times change.
NO CHASE states:
http://bfy.tw/run
That article loses credibility with me ith this statement.
Before restrictive-pursuit policies, often the worst thing that officers found at the end of a chase was a suspended license, an ashtray full of seeds and stems, or empty beer cans in the pickup bed.
Seeds??? Now why would anyone have seeds in their car unless they're sunflower seeds...
We already have manslaughter for that. Looking the US for punitive laws is a slippery slope. It's amazing how easy it is to kill a person in many states, with no penalty.
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Your chance of getting a s172 for simple speeding, (I am using the 20 km over as has been used thus far in the thread), is as about as great as getting hit by a transit bus on your bike.
No, that's a completely different charge. Look at my previous post that describes "felony murder."
Pretty sure if someone died as the result of an out of control speeder, the charges would go far above just the highway traffic act? There were manslaughter charges in the era of all those import car road racing incidents in north Toronto.