Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?
by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @07:53AM
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It's an accident if no one planned it and willed it deliberately.
But accident is a civil term, not a legal term. Legally there's a spectrum of culpability from driver innocence (the brakes failed, the lights failed, a bob cat fell on the windshield) to premeditated murder, with negligence and recklessness in between.
There may still be legal responsibility elsewhere. Did the brakes fail because the garage made a mistake?
Of course you can have an accident because you were reckless. That doesn't mean you wanted to kill someone. It means you were taking avoidable and unnecessary risks and didn't get away with it.
But accident is a civil term, not a legal term. Legally there's a spectrum of culpability from driver innocence (the brakes failed, the lights failed, a bob cat fell on the windshield) to premeditated murder, with negligence and recklessness in between.
There may still be legal responsibility elsewhere. Did the brakes fail because the garage made a mistake?
Of course you can have an accident because you were reckless. That doesn't mean you wanted to kill someone. It means you were taking avoidable and unnecessary risks and didn't get away with it.