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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.