Soft Sand Saves Two Teens Run Over On Daytona Beach
Two 16-year-old women sunbathing on the soft sand near Sunglow Pier were run over by a man in a pickup truck Sunday morning. One woman sustained injuries to her legs and the other to her torso.
Neither of the injuries were life-threatening, and charges are still pending against the truck driver. This guy is very lucky that the women were lying in soft sand. On other stretches of the beach, the sand is very hard-packed. If the accident had taken place there, we would likely be hearing a much different story.
While I’m not commenting either way, this incident brings to mind something we discussed in law school. Sometimes, the law can be quite arbitrary. The same action by a person can result in very different legal outcomes.
The truck driver in this case backed out of his parking spot without looking. That’s of course clearly negligent, but the legal outcome would have been very different had he been on hard sand and the girls had suffered critical or lethal injuries.
The quality of the sand was just blind luck. For the same action, this truck driver could be facing life in jail. Be careful out there.
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