{"id":30454,"date":"2016-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/road-killers-can-be-sentenced-like-murderers\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T00:00:00","slug":"road-killers-can-be-sentenced-like-murderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/road-killers-can-be-sentenced-like-murderers\/","title":{"rendered":"Road killers can be sentenced like murderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Death by dangerous driving laws allow for different degrees of recklessness, says barrister Alex Ward.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s what they call a basic offence, it\u2019s a 15 year maximum,\u201d Alex told FIVEAA brekky. \u201cBut there\u2019s no minimum, so that gives us a range.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/penbo-the-whole-system-is-screwed-up\"><strong>SEE ALSO: PENBO &#8212; THE WHOLE SYSTEM\u2019S SCREWED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s an aggravated offence\u2026 the maximum goes up to life imprisonment, which is the same as murder. On that basis, the law that we have actually does factor in a way to say here\u2019s how we\u2019re going to deal with much more serious examples.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/289207815&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Local laws have been in the spotlight after the second innocent driver in a fortnight was killed by a reckless driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople used to be charged in these circumstances with manslaughter. The trend would be that the juries wouldn\u2019t find them guilty\u2026. They\u2019d say that could\u2019ve been me, this is an accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lots of charges for the same thing,\u201d Alex said. \u201cLike assault. Assault can be me yelling at someone\u2026 or it can be me giving them a king hit from which they might die. The spectrum\u2019s that large.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-crows-explain-bryce-gibbs-no-go\"><strong>ADELAIDE CROWS DEFEND BRYCE GIBBS NO GO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/penbo-the-whole-system-is-screwed-up\"><strong>PENBO &#8212; THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS SCREWED UP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death by dangerous driving laws allow for different degrees of recklessness, says barrister Alex Ward. \u201cIf it\u2019s what they call a basic offence, it\u2019s a 15 year maximum,\u201d Alex told FIVEAA brekky. \u201cBut there\u2019s no minimum, so that gives us a range.\u201d SEE ALSO: PENBO &#8212; THE WHOLE SYSTEM\u2019S SCREWED \u201cIf it\u2019s an aggravated offence\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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