Opinion: $81 fine for man involved in cyclist’s death involving dooring was reasonable.
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“I get where people are flabbergasted saying someone died and the punishment is this $81 fine and it doesn’t seem to match. But you go through several points in the piece that you wrote saying ‘actually, this is the correct punishment…'”.
Kyla: “Yes, although this was an incredibly tragic incident with a horrible consequence, the reality is that when our legal system sets up an offence and the corresponding punishment for that offence, the legislature looks at what the moral blameworthiness is of a person who commits that particular offence.”…
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