I can’t get a good answer for this as Google is thinking I’m talking just solely on the driver. I’m including passengers who don’t. I’ve seen PSAs that tell you the dangers you pose for others as well when you don’t wear a seatbelt. So if you don’t wear a seatbelt and that results in someone being killed could you not wearing a seatbelt mean you get a manslaughter charge?
I’m sorry, but this kind of logic just baffles me. Are you talking out of your ass on this one? If you’re driving and I’ll jump onto the road right in front of you, will you still be at fault? Where in the world would that be the case? If I come to a factory and stick my hand into a wood chipper that someone was operating and then say “whoever the hell was operating this 5 thousand pound hunk of steel should be at fault now!”, would I be correct in my logic?
This is next level mental gymnastics. If someone robbed you, think about it this way - if you hadn’t been there, none of it would have happened. So maybe you’re at fault after all
It’s easy. You decided to drive a vehicle, you’re at fault, it’s your job to watch out for pedestrians. If you can’t stop in time, you’re moving too fast. If your vehicle is so large that it kills them instead of simply hurting them (see - large trucks with huge grills instead of safer lower fronts), then you’re at fault 100% because you chose an unsafe vehicle. If you can’t see them because it was at night, still I don’t care, that was on you, you should be able to see them. Feel free to argue it in court, that’s what they’re there for, but duty should on the driver to prove that, they were the one operating the heavy machinery. If that worries you or makes you feel emotions then good. You should feel nervous when you drive a vehicle, it’s quite literally heavy machinery that you’re hurtling forward at 60mph. You’re responsible for it.