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Any persons, who drive without care and attention or in violation of the obligations as required by the road traffic law, resulting in injuries to others and the victims being not able to work for eight or more days following the date of the incident, shall be subject to being imprisoned from six months to two years and
being fined from Riel 2,000,000 to Riel 10,000,000, and may be subject to one or more additional penalties as stipulated in Article 53 (categories of additional penalties) of the penal code.

The above offenses shall be subject to being imprisoned from one to three years
and being fined from Riel 4,000,000 to Riel 15,000,000 should they be committed
in any of the following cases:

a. driving without a driving license or with a driving license inappropriate to the
type of the vehicle,
b. driving the under influence with alcoholic rate of 0.40mg or more per liter of
air, or 0.80g or more per liter of blood,
c. resulting in injuries to numerous people,
d. escaping from the accident scene to avoid being held responsible,

Additional penalties, which may be imposed against the offenses as stipulated in this Article, shall include:

1. Offenders being banned from doing their business permanently, or for up to
five years, should the offenses be committed whilst the business is being
operated or during the period of business;
2. Offenders being banned from driving any vehicle for up to five years;
3. Suspension of driving license for up to five years;
4. Public display/dissemination of the punishment decision for up to two
months;
5. Publishing punishment decision in newspapers;
6. Publishing punishment decision through all audio-visual telecommunications
means for up to eight days.


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Any persons, who drive without care and attention or in violation of the obligations as required by the road traffic law, resulting in death of others, shall be subject to being imprisoned from one to three years and being fined from Riel 4,000,000 to Riel 15,000,000, and may be subject to one or more additional penalties as stipulated in Article 53 (categories of additional penalties) of the penal code.

The above offenses shall be subject to being imprisoned from two to five years
and being fined from Riel 10,000,000 to Riel 25,000,000 should they be committed in any of the following cases:

a. driving without a driving license or with a driving license inappropriate to the
type of the vehicle,
b. driving the under influence with alcoholic rate of 0.40mg or more per liter of
air, or 0.80g or more per liter of blood,
c. resulting in death to numerous people,
d. escaping from the accident scene to avoid being held responsible,
Additional penalties, which may be imposed against the offenses as stipulated in
this Article, shall include:
1. offenders being banned from doing their business permanently, or for up to
five years, should the offenses be committed whilst the business is being
operated or during the period of business;
2. offenders being banned from driving any vehicle for up to five years;
3. suspension of driving license for up to five years;
4. public display/dissemination of the punishment decision for up to two
months;
5. publishing punishment decision in newspapers;
6. publishing punishment decision through all audio-visual telecommunications
means for up to eight days.

In some other reported accidents the police s have dropped the charges if the driver comes to an agreement with the families of the deceased, ususally something around $3000 for a death. Not sure if that can happen now but it would be terrible if he got off.

pczz wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:36 pm In some other reported accidents the police s have dropped the charges if the driver comes to an agreement with the families of the deceased, ususally something around $3000 for a death. Not sure if that can happen now but it would be terrible if he got off.

It looks like he already has. It's a great country, you can stab someone to death and get 5 years, but get 30 for being caught with drugs. Driving like a lunatic and killing 3 people barely registers for a slap on the wrist.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:12 am

pczz wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:36 pm In some other reported accidents the police s have dropped the charges if the driver comes to an agreement with the families of the deceased, ususally something around $3000 for a death. Not sure if that can happen now but it would be terrible if he got off.

It looks like he already has. It's a great country, you can stab someone to death and get 5 years, but get 30 for being caught with drugs. Driving like a lunatic and killing 3 people barely registers for a slap on the wrist.

I think the issue is that Cambodian law is based on compensation so if you compensate someone for the perceived wrong you can drop the complaint and in most cases there is no compulsory police prosecution. In the developed world prosecutions are done by the police and the victim has no choice in the matter for things like murder, family violence and so on. The victim may also get compendation of some sort. Victims can only let people off in civil cases.
In a poor country it is better to get a few thousand dollars for the loss of the main breadwinner than see the perpetrator go to jail and get nothing to feed the family with. $3000 dollars isclose to what many poor Cambodians could earn in 3 years

pczz wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:44 am $3000 dollars is close to what many poor Cambodians could earn in 3 years

While I understand what you are getting at, $3000 is a paltry amount compared to how much it costs to raise a child to adulthood, and nothing compared to how much a reasonably successful adult will earn over their working life. Nobody has suggested that these victims were on $3 a day either. $3000 is throwaway money to a rich person. I'm surprised there aren't more rich Cambodians just running over people for fun when they don't have to face any real consequences. It's a disgusting situation, that twat who ran over all those people just to escape paying for a prang should be looking at 20+.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:59 am

pczz wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:44 am $3000 dollars is close to what many poor Cambodians could earn in 3 years

While I understand what you are getting at, $3000 is a paltry amount compared to how much it costs to raise a child to adulthood, and nothing compared to how much a reasonably successful adult will earn over their working life. Nobody has suggested that these victims were on $3 a day either. $3000 is throwaway money to a rich person. I'm surprised there aren't more rich Cambodians just running over people for fun when they don't have to face any real consequences. It's a disgusting situation, that twat who ran over all those people just to escape paying for a prang should be looking at 20+.

I don't disagree. but the families need some compensation to live on. Ideally he should have his assets seized and used for compensation and do 20+. maybe a process for seizing vehicles for serious offences like jumping red lights or drink driving where there is no accident, auctioning them off and using the proceeds as a compensation fund for victims of bad driving. They could even throw in vehicles confiscated for drug running and illegal wood transport. That would be a big deterrent if the police enforced it and provide some measure of financial support for victims and their families.

For the killing of three people, kids actually, he should be doing time and paying through the nose.

For all the morons on Monivong, and Nordordam, and the piglets trying to stick their hands in my pocket when I drive there, I take the back streets at a much slower pace.

Terrible.