Do you want to spend 6 months in prison the next time you lose focus for a second and drive over the center line?
I imagine every driver here has done that multiple times, and just been lucky that there wasn’t a car coming the other direction at that exact moment.
Putting people in prison because of an unfortunate bad luck of having a bad result of doing something that a LOT of people do, seems stupid.
We have a street that becomes one way in a small town here. About once a week I watch a car turn the wrong way down the street, they drive a while, figure it out, and pull off.
Not sure how it helps to throw them in prison for 6 months if, during their brief time of error, some pedestrian stepped off the sidewalk and got hit because they weren’t looking for a car going the wrong way.
It is unlikely she would get a term of imprisonment, especially if she came back volountarily. Our prisons are jam packed as it is and the only people who get locked up are chronic recedivists or people who are a danger to the public. She would more likely get a fine and a community punishment and then get deported. The family aren’t even asking for a prison sentence, they have already said they aren’t asking for her to be locked up, just to come back cooperate with the investigation and allow herself to be held to account. The fine would probably be less than what she’d have to pay in damages in a civil case brought in the US courts, so she might actually be better off coming back, giving the parents the satisfaction of holding herself to account rather than forcing them to seek redress in an expensive civil suit.