While I agree that prison is not appropriate for a situation that results in an accident, I can't agree that this was an accident. An accident happens outside of a person's control of a particular situation (e.g., a windstorm blows up debris into the roadway and obscures your vision of an oncoming vehicle). This woman didn't have an "accident". She intentionally committed a vehicle code violation and a man died as a results. The officer may have contributed, but the woman bears responsiblity for what happened above that of a simple traffic violation.
That “code violation” is simply driving faster than an arbitrarily-defined “speed limit” that some legislature decided on.
Therefore, while legally, it may have been something other than an accident, practically and common-sense wise, it was.
A vehicle code violation is not a crime. The officer died because he participated in a very stupid action of stepping in front of a moving vehicle.
His surviving family members have a great civil claim against the government agency that employed him. It's a slam dunk.
Had the women been driving slower, the cop may still have been run over...
Had the cop not been standing in the road, he would NOT have been run over...
Where’d this happen, Mayberry???