I once heard a horror story that I will try to relate correctly now. It's possible that this scenario is entirely possible, or that it's not at all likely.
The story goes like this. An expat man was driving around with his kids in the car. Something happened, and he had a car accident, killing the other guy. He and his kids were unhurt. In the story, it seems like the expat didn't really do much wrong other than have an ordinary car accident. And maybe it was even the dead guy's fault. But he's dead. And the result was that the expat was taken to jail. His wife had to come get the kids. Later, he ended up having to fight a legal battle, either with the criminal system, or with the dead guy's family.
So my question is this: what would it take here in uruguay for this kind of scenario to happen? Maybe the expat would need to be drunk or speeding in a crazy manner? Or maybe this could happen with the expat not doing anything wrong at all?
After we had been here a few months, I nearly hit a man who was passed out drunk in the middle of the road. He of course passed out in a totally dark area. I'm certain had we hit him we would have killed him. And the only reason we didn't hit him is because a motorcycle with lights in front of us saw him first and stopped. We didn't know why he had stopped, because we couldn't see the guy, until we were right behind the motorcycle. I've always wondered how close I came to being thrown in jail because of some drunk guy.
brian
The story goes like this. An expat man was driving around with his kids in the car. Something happened, and he had a car accident, killing the other guy. He and his kids were unhurt. In the story, it seems like the expat didn't really do much wrong other than have an ordinary car accident. And maybe it was even the dead guy's fault. But he's dead. And the result was that the expat was taken to jail. His wife had to come get the kids. Later, he ended up having to fight a legal battle, either with the criminal system, or with the dead guy's family.
So my question is this: what would it take here in uruguay for this kind of scenario to happen? Maybe the expat would need to be drunk or speeding in a crazy manner? Or maybe this could happen with the expat not doing anything wrong at all?
After we had been here a few months, I nearly hit a man who was passed out drunk in the middle of the road. He of course passed out in a totally dark area. I'm certain had we hit him we would have killed him. And the only reason we didn't hit him is because a motorcycle with lights in front of us saw him first and stopped. We didn't know why he had stopped, because we couldn't see the guy, until we were right behind the motorcycle. I've always wondered how close I came to being thrown in jail because of some drunk guy.
brian
