I worked in personal injury litigation for a couple of decades. It’s at least in part about money, and money will soften the pain of a dead child, as well.
Americans might forget which side of the street to drive on in Britain. She didn’t do it on purpose.
I wonder if she was driving a LHD or a RHD vehicle?
Not doing it on purpose is called manslaughter.
I would have argued with you about money softening the pain of a dead child except saw that in my own family.
My cousin’s 22 year old son was shot and killed due to another driver going into road rage. The man that shot him was 20something too, and had family wealth. Due to family wealth the murderer was able to hire an outstanding attorney and that attorney got the murderer off pretty light.
Someone suggested my cousin consider a lawsuit against the murderer. She didn’t want money, she wanted her son back. That wasn’t possible though and her thinking was if that punk got into more trouble when he got out of his short prison sentence he could once again use his family wealth to get off lightly.
My cousin did file a lawsuit and won a considerable settlement. She bought a nice cabin in the mountains for the family to use, then donated the rest to charity.
The family spent a lot of time at “Scott’s Cabin” as they named it. Memory time, healing time...it really did help them. It helped to have the win in the lawsuit as they felt that was an additional punishment to the murderer. They used the cabin to help get through the grieving process.
Money in no way makes up for the loss of a child of course.