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[–] CrazyInAnInsaneWorld 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Ehhh, "Attempted Murder" implies Rens Mea, or rather, the intent to murder. I can swing for the harsher penalties for those that cause accidents while speeding, in lieu of regular speeding fines, but how would you go about enforcing it? I could even go for just enforcing speeding tickets in certain areas (School Zones are such an area that immediately come to mind), but charging for attempted murder, which implies an active desire to murder someone, as a prerequisite for the charge, because of an accident? Nothing about that speaks to the idea of 'justice', in my analysis.

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[–] Gake_The_Cake ago 

People have been charged with Attempted Murder for wanton negligence if the negligence outright dumbfounds the judge by their sheer stupidity.

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[–] CrazyInAnInsaneWorld ago 

Citation needed. That's not how that works. That's not how any of that works. The judge is not the one who brings the charges, he's the neutral arbiter, much like a referee. The most he does is at the end decide on a sentence, or declare a verdict in the absence of a jury of peers. It is the Prosecutor that brings charges, not the Judge.

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[–] CrazyInAnInsaneWorld 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

are you not through your own negligence and arrogance guilty of murder or at the very least manslaughter?

Manslaughter, sure. But Attempted Murder requires a very specific intent-component, meaning that you would have to prove that the reason the speeder was speeding was that he specifically had the intent to murder. That's a case so shaky, not even a rookie prosecutor would take it on. Further, when someone dies due to a speeding accident, we already charge them with manslaughter, sometimes classed as "vehicular homocide", so I'm not sure how charging someone with manslaughter changes anything from the status quo.