
The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)
Freakonomics Radio
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Do You Have a Vehicle Manslaughter Statute?
Only about 5% of the drivers who kill a pedestrian in New York are arrested. Massachusetts and Connecticut have vehicular manslaughter statutes that punish traffic fatalities or serious injury because of simple negligence. Iowa, Louisiana, Georgia, Nevada, Kansas, California All over the country there are states with vehicular statutes that punish a failure to yield A traffic fatality, it'll punish the driver Smith says.
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