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[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

Would this be a criminal offense? As much as it’s annoying that his car is so massive, he drove a street legal vehicle in the wrong place. Paying for the damages seems like a sufficient consequence.

[-] bahbah23@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago

Not a lawyer, but I would assume that reckless driving would apply here. If nothing else, he should be liable for the damages financially due to negligence

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

If it's overweight, it's not street legal.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Street legal*

*not legal on all streets

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

It was overweight for the bridge, not the road. It was from a commercial trucking company, so likely a dump truck. The first clue should be that it was a F-750. There are pickup beds for them, but they're almost always a flatbed or dump bed.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world -5 points 3 months ago

Street-legal, bridge-legal, who gives a shit. The point is, they drove it illegally and should be able to be punished accordingly. The make and model are irrelevant.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Do you think they wont be if not for this internet rage?

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I don't care either way, I was responding to a different person who said they couldn't be punished because it was street-legal but in "the wrong place." I was simply pointing out that street-legal-but-in-the-wrong-place is the same as not-street-legal.

[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Why do you have such a hard on for punishment? Isn't restitution enough?

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I have a hard-on for accurate language, I don't give a shit what happens to the imaginary people in the pickup truck.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He failed to observe a traffic control device. There's at least a ticket in there somewhere for him.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

If the bridge had been just a bit sturdier, it could have been damaged jut to the point where the truck could have passed, but the next person driving over would have fell in and risked their lives.

[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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