Comment 94205

By Noted (anonymous) | Posted November 04, 2013 at 12:19:06 in reply to Comment 94203

Toronto Police Const. Clint Stibbe explains that to lay a criminal charge of dangerous driving or criminal negligence causing death, police have to be satisfied there was intent to kill or the driving was so flagrantly egregious that the motorist would have known someone was going to be killed as a result.

More often than not, that’s too high a threshold to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. And so, drivers are charged under the HTA where it’s driver conduct — and not the injuries they cause — that comes into play.

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/03/fatal-crashes-typically-fail-to-yield-criminal-charges

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