Re: House arrest after killing cyclist in hit and run.

Am 02.03.2025 um 01:28 schrieb John B.:

On Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:18:22 -0500, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
 

On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 12:59:56 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 3/1/2025 9:14 AM, AMuzi wrote:

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A few thousand years of human interaction (with laws, rules, customs,
and case records) has resulted in some widely accepted general rules and
this is one.
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For example, one application of that:
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https://everything2.com/title/Law+of+Gross+Tonnage
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"The heavier vessel always has the right-of-way.

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That obviously is not the case on roads, neither legally nor practically.

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That's absolutely practical from my perspective. That's an issue I've
no intention of arguing.

 The Gross Tonnage rule is based on the fact that a larger ship is far
less maneuverable then a lighter, smaller vessel and momentum, also
enters into the equation - 100 tons is obviously much more difficult
(floating in the water) to stop, then 1  ton.

The correct forumlation of the law on sea is "the less maneuverable ship has right of way".  Normally the larger ship is assumed to be the less maneuverable ship unless one of the two ships in question is a sail ship or a human powered boat.