Accountability for fatal incidents

A thought-provoking idea for Australia’s road safety community: Accountability for fatal incidents caused by impaired drivers. We need a systemic change in attitudes to road safety to make dangerous driving as socially unacceptable as other anathemas such as domestic violence, not giving consent, one-punch laws, etc.
Imagine a groundbreaking law change that shifts accountability for fatal crashes caused by impaired drivers. Here’s an interesting idea from Milwaukee in the USA that could mandate drunk drivers to pay child support when their actions result in the loss of a parent or legal guardian. Similar laws have already passed in Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas and Maine. This potential transformative idea aims to ensure financial support for the children left behind, offering a unique approach to justice. So often, the families and loved ones get a life sentence, and the drivers get away with Vehicular Homicide with a derisory sentence. Maybe it’s time to change that for road deaths and people whose neglect causes catastrophic injuries.