Killing pedestrians should be a crime
Kind of a no-brainer. But usually, the driver isn’t even charged! Part of the problem is that it’s not exactly clear what crime is committed when a car jumps the curb and mows down innocent people.
Here’s the answer: make driving on the sidewalk an arrestable offense. It’s not something you have to arrest a driver for. But when you come on the scene and somebody is dead, it gives police something to charge the driver with.
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Drivers are rarely charged here for hit and runs that happen every week.
That is the greater problem. But we could start by making it a crime when they drive on the sidewalk to do so.
A hit and run is a totally different subject then an accident of hitting someone. Leaving someone to die at the scene of a accident is criminal and cowardly.