Posted on 12/06/2022 7:27:14 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat, will not return to Britain for sentencing this week after admitting causing the death of a teenager by driving carelessly in England three years ago, a British court has said.
Harry Dunn, 19, died in August 2019 after his motorcycle was hit by a car driven on the wrong side of the road by Sacoolas near RAF Croughton, an air force base in the English county of Northamptonshire that is used by the U.S. military.
Sacoolas, whose husband worked as a U.S. intelligence officer at the base, left Britain shortly after the accident, claiming diplomatic immunity from criminal prosecution and the United States refused to extradite her.
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Family should sue in civil court.
Anne Sacoolas also has a poor driving record in US....
Diplomatic immunity has been around ever since diplomats. Does it suck sometimes? Yes. But there are (probably good) reasons for it being in place. (Also made for some good episodes of Law and Order?).
Life sucks sometimes. This is one of those times.
everybody drives on the wrong side of the road over there ...
“She was driving on the wrong side of the road “
NO, She was driving on the CORRECT side of the road.
All you Brits and a few others ALL drive on the WRONG side of the road.
Get with the program.
LOL.
Unless she was impaired, this should have been a civil case.
I have an old road map of Jamaica that has a caution note on it that reads,
Note, driving in Jamaica is done on the left hand side of the road. Practice before you go.
Worldwide, it’s the US that drives on the wrong side—influenced during the British Empire. (Singapore, India, Australia).
It’s true that the accident was her fault but I would like to know the number of motorcyclists who die in the UK every year as a result of collisions with automobiles and what the typical consequences are for the drivers at fault. I am guessing that there are quite a number of such collisions and that consequences for at-fault car drivers are few and very light. But that is just a guess; perhaps a UK Freeper would know?
We generally don’t exercise diplomatic immunity....with close allies. It’s designed for relations with more hostile countries—who, for example, would falsely charge our diplomats, in a tit-for-tat way, for a similar crime. I’ve never heard of diplomatic immunity being used against the UK.
My good friend’s husband was killed by a New Zealand guy driving on the wrong side of the road in Montana.
For reference:
“Family members forming part of the household
of diplomatic agents enjoy precisely the same
privileges and immunities as do the sponsoring
diplomatic agents.3”
“3 The United States defines members of the household to include: spouses, children until the age of 21 (until the age of 23 if they are full-time students at an institution of higher learning), and such other persons expressly agreed to by the U.S. Department of State in extraordinary circumstances.”
Source:
Diplomatic and
Consular Immunity:
Guidance for Law Enforcement
and Judicial Authorities
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2018-DipConImm_v5_Web.pdf
Besides this being the UK, a military intelligence officer...is not, by definition, a “diplomat,” and certainly not his wife.
At the time she was also working there for the cia.
“claiming diplomatic immunity from criminal prosecution and the United States refused to extradite her.”
Shameful, diplomatic immunity wasn’t designed for situations like this.
I know, right?
Sheesh!
Joking aside, I read that Winston Churchill was hit and seriously injured in NYC in the ‘30s when he looked the wrong way before crossing the street.
I can relate because in ‘81, as a young GI on leave in London I narrowly missed getting flattened by one of those big red double decker buses after I looked the wrong way.
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