6 points and a £150 fine for attempted murder

Sell the car, pay the victim from the sales.

This is half-baked raving insanity. First, the logistics are a tar pit of bureaucracy. What are the standards for seizing a disputed car? Who seizes it? Who is the custodian and how is their fee determined? The case will generally drag on for years, if not decades, as I mentioned elsewhere, and the car will lose a depreciate a huge amount. Does the injured party simply lose the depreciation, or is it made up somehow? Is there interest on the depreciation, and if so how much and who pays it? Who conducts the sale? And who conducts the independent determination of fair value? If the sale is too far below fair value, who is punished and how?

Second, the value of the car is usually a drop in the bucket compared to the injuries in a case like this one. It is fucking stupidity to spend £5k in storage, litigation, and depreciation on a car that costs £7k, for a case where the car owner is going to be paying £150k, out of the rental company's total assets of £25M.

Third, do you fucking know what fucking subrogation fucking is? The injured party gets paid last. The ambulance service is paid first, the emergency doctor next, the reconstructive surgeons next, the physical therapists and home health assistants next, the employer next, the lawyer next, and finally the injured party gets what is left. If anything. Everybody already has to fight over the normal cash award. You want them to also fight, using unique seized car laws, over a disputed car that has been rusting in a car park for 15 years.

And a weapon is still a weapon without intent

No, it is not. Negligent injury does not involve a weapon, it involves a hazardous instrumentality. A weapon is something that is intended to harm.

/r/bicycling Thread Parent Link - bbc.co.uk