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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
I'm willing to bet no one here has blown a stop sign in an 60 tonne super bee doing 100 km/h
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For sure but I think in some ways that is why I am more sympathetic to him than I might otherwise be. If he slowed to 35 and rolled through because he was lazy or couldn’t shift or just thought it was ok I would support an even harsher sentence. But for whatever reason and the driver himself may not even know, he simply didn’t see the signs. I am not excusing, it is just so sad. I think it would be easier if he was more of a villain. I remember blowing through a stop sign at full speed maybe 20 years ago on a rural road in southern Alberta. I knew the roads in the area and thought that I was on a road one mile east of where I was. That road had no stops signs for quite a while, but the road I was actually on had one just a mile past where I turned on. So I was moving along and as I went through intersection I saw the back side of the octagon on the other side of the road. I have thought of that a lot since the humboldt tragedy. Obviously a pickup truck wouldn’t do the damage a semi did, but if I had killed one child is that really any different? Certainly not to those parents. What is justice there. I guess if nothing else a good reminder how we need to stay focused and eliminate distractions when driving.