“Besides not stopping to help a child you just ran over, you could be prosecuted on a hit and run.”
The hit and run prosecution doesn’t add much, once they pop you for having a drink or two. My problem is the presumption of guilt - for that, I will stand around and roll the dice, nor should my kids.
But I guess we think differently.
I’ve never really understood why ‘hitting and running’ is illegal. For me, it is sensible advice in many circumstances, when you consider that when you have just run someone over, especially a kid, emotions will be running high and you would be better off driving away and turning yourself in later. They actually advise you to do this in places like South Africa where drivers have been lynched by angry mobs following an accident, I can imagine there are many areas in America that would be the same.