Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
I had a teacher in high school that was doing 3 years of parole for manslaughter because his car hit black ice on the way to work in the morning and killed a little girl waiting for the bus.
There's likely more to that story -- he was drunk or speeding (even beyond the "too fast for conditions" thing), etc.
We do not typically send drivers to jail simply for making mistakes that anybody could make. They have to do something more -- being drunk, evading police, extreme (not just a little) speeding, texting as a reason is up and coming, etc.