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Speeding Seattle officer who struck and killed student will not face charges
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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I agree with the verdict that vehicular homicide isn't warranted, in this case where the Indian women actually ran into the intersection while an emergency vehicle was oncoming. That definitely shows it wasn't a callous act on the part of the driver - but I do think there needs to be some kind of fine or penalty for the fellow officer who made it sound like her death was of no consequence. That is the real crime here.
Officer Kevin Dave was driving 74mph (119km/h) on a street with a 25mph (40km/h) speed limit in a police SUV before he hit 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula in a crosswalk on 23 January 2023.
She was in a crosswalk, where drivers are expected to be aware of pedestrians, and the cop was going so fast, that she likely had little to no time to react.
75mph means that you cover 110 feet per second, that's 10 feet in a literal blink.
A car approaching at that speed is effectively impossible to judge as a pedestrian.
Additionally, the cop was only chirping his sirens, making it even harder to place his location and speed and she had the right of way as a pedestrian, so in the 10 seconds or so it takes to cross a crosswalk, the cop car can silently (because again, he was not appropriately using his sirens) come from completely invisible, to being in the crosswalk.
There is no justification for the cops actions in this scenario, his negligent behavior cost one life and ultimately delayed the care of someone else.
Believe whatever you want, I couldn't care less.