Brother, I share your sentiment, sad it might be, but the laws
works in a way of intention and no intention, every accident is
consider as no intention, that is why it is call An Accident. I
bring you to a case many years ago, a local teacher who
while driving, dropped her keys and bent down to retrieve it, her
car went up the pavement and killed a father and son. The father
was my former colleague.
End up also acquitted due to no intention, it is not a murder or
manslaughter, it is mistake of a human fault operating on a human
built machine that require a lot of safety on the road. It is then
termed as neligience, get suspended, fined with no jail term due to
the nature of the accident and also the teacher profession at
stake.
Our laws derive from the Common laws since independent, and it
had been reviewed, changed and passed time after time as the
world changes, it somehow works toward the employer and govt
flavour and also at time the one at fault, unlike some other
countries where you can bring up a person to court at many levels
of the judiciary till you are full satisfy with it, Singapore laws,
is in a way, one laws said it all.
in this case, the guy intended to drive like a lunatic, intended
to try to break the sound barrier on public roads, intended to run
red lights... and in the event of intending to be a maniac on the
roads, people are killed...
what kind of intent and punishment if the asshole survived
then?
