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Originally Posted by Lobo1186
That being said while it will be hard to prove any criminal intent on TS's part, there could be money to be "won" I bet.
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Yes but the law also must consider criminal negligence when it leads to a loss of life. You're not off the hook just because you didn't act with intent but were still found to be acting in a reckless manner and this leads to a fatality.
Maybe you can blame the track officials but Stewart wasn't keeping to the far inside when a disabled car was on the track and track workers were responding. Although to be fair, with the red mist, the deceased would have probably kept walking into the track until he could get close enough to Stewart's car. Or maybe he wouldn't have walked out that far. We'll never know now. But what you can tell very clearly from the video is that Stewart was driving way too close to the disabled vehicle and traveling too fast relative to the speed and distance of the car that had just passed (unlike TS this driver looks like he slowed down because of the accident). I'd be curious to see how a prosecutor explains this away.
I read in one article that many online commenters were saying that Stewart didn't do enough to try and avoid the kid, which really implies reckless driving from their view.