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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
I should think that it depends on the situation, just like here. Some idiot darts out between parked cars and right into the path of a car doing 30 MPH, and the driver isn't likely to be charged. In this case someone vacantly steps in front of a train that's going 70 MPH, and takes 2 miles to stop, and it isn't the engineer's fault. Even the law occasionally recognizes reality.
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From a legal standpoint the driver wont be charged but as far as ins goes they almost always do. Then again recently in NYC no one stops when they thump a pedestrain anyway, been a lot of fatal hit and runs up here.