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No I didn’t. In Australia the registered owner of the car is legally responsible and assumed to be driving the car unless they nominate the person who was.
How is a car running from police, getting its wheels blown out, continuing to run for another few kilometres, and then being abandoned “exceptionally weak”? The police had his car. If he can’t name who was driving it, he is responsible. That’s literally the law.
If you leave your car at home and one of your kids takes it and gets a speeding fine, parking fine, it red light camera fine and none of them will own up and you can’t figure out who it was, guess who takes the rap for it? YOU. Saying you don’t know who it was isn’t a get out of jail free card.
Read the article ffs
The police lied to him about what he needed to do. He acted on the advice they gave him.
Your hypothetical is both irrelevant and not correct, based on the information in the article that you refuse to actually read.
You are not smarter or more knowledgeable in the law than a district court judge.
The police didn’t lie to him. Those are what he had to do if he didn’t want to be charged.
What part do you think is a lie?
Read it again. It's not my job to educate you. Especially not if you're being wilfully ignorant.
Which part do you think is a lie? The police were right.
FFS if you're going to continue being this much of a fuckwit and/or idiot I'm done with this conversation.
Where’s the lie? He was told he had to do the stat Dec and name a person, and that if he couldn’t name the person then he could be charged. That’s legally and factually correct.
Again - where’s the lie?
Wrong
Why won’t you answer the question?
Where is the lie in what they said?
Read the fucking comment you fucking turd.
I even went to the effort of bolding the relevant section for you.
There's no lie in the bolded part though lol. He was told what he had to do or he could be charged. That means that if he doesn't do it, he can be charged.
Again - what lie did the police tell?