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08-03-2007, 12:32 PM | #11 | |
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08-03-2007, 08:49 PM | #12 | |
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Charge him with vehicular homicide at the least!
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08-30-2007, 02:37 AM | #13 |
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Re: Should a criminal be responsible for the crash of two news choppers??
I disagree, Felix. How can you charge him with vehicular homicide when his vehicle had no direct effect on the vehicles that collided?
He did not "cause" the choppers to collide. The choppers' crews happened to focus on him to such an extent that the pilots appeared to ignore basic safety procedures (e.g. looking out the flippin' window) and collided. If a similar crash occured because pilots (or drivers) were watching a woman walking down the street in a bikini, would you advocate charging her with four deaths?
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08-30-2007, 10:26 AM | #14 | |
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09-02-2007, 02:16 PM | #15 |
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Re: Should a criminal be responsible for the crash of two news choppers??
Felix, I think your completely wrong mate.
He in no way caused any of this. The news choppers decided to follow him. They weren't serving any duty like the policy.
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09-02-2007, 11:47 PM | #16 |
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Re: Should a criminal be responsible for the crash of two news choppers??
Exactly. Charging someone for causing injury or death in the line of duty for police, fire, and other emergency services is one thing, but it's another thing entirely if the death is of someone who's just sticking their nose in and dies because of their own lack of attention.
If a lawyer chased an ambulance and died in the pursuit thereof by wrapping his (or her) car around a telephone pole, would you charge the injured person in the ambulance for the lawyer's death? After all, it was their emergency that "caused" the death of the lawyer. Of course you wouldn't (although you might cheer). The connection is just too tenuous. Of course, responsibility on the civil law side (negligence) is a completely different kettle of fish, as Timber previously said. In the above situation, it's very possible that the ambulance driver (or some other driver) might have a certain percentage of liability. Don't forget, the law of negligence is very much about "righting a wrong", and insurance companies are seen to have deep pockets.
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09-04-2007, 10:46 AM | #17 |
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Re: Should a criminal be responsible for the crash of two news choppers??
Would you, then, sue the telephone company for putting thier pole there?
In some instances, the only liability can be the liability of the person that crashed the car into the pole. In your example, for instance, if the lawyer had been driving with his eyes, instead of his wallet, he might have avoided that accident. The same holds true for the pilots. In the air, they are responsible for the safety of both the aircraft, and all on board. If they aren't watching where they are flying, but are gawking at something on the ground, then it can't be the fault of the something on the ground. What control can you attribute to the crash of the helicopters to the driver of the car? If said driver runs over somebody, or, by the act of fleeing, causes an accident in an intersection, then he is at fault, because it's a direct result of his actions. Now, if he had caused the car to wind up at the cruise altitude of the helicopters, then maybe. However, I would like to think that the cause of an accident where the vehichle directly intersects the path of another, causing an accident, is where the liability would be assigned to the fleeing driver. In the case of the news helicopter, just as with the ambulance chasing lawyer, the search for fame/fortune of the operator of the crashing vehichle is not the responsibility of the person they are trying to capitalize off of.
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09-05-2007, 12:41 AM | #18 |
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Re: Should a criminal be responsible for the crash of two news choppers??
Could not have said it better.
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