Exaggerated recklessnes in road traffic is murder

Abstract

Throughout the world, including Slovenia we face highly reckless and simultaneously life threatening behavior in road traffic. There is a significant trend, in last couple of decades, which indicates, that the number of such life threatening behaviors is rising, also outside the concept of road traffic terrorism (intentional mass killings by car or truck on public roads). In Slovenia research is currently being conducted on misuse of public roads for illegal drag races, conducted by two or more perpetrators. In this research, potential and actual obvious inconsistencies and insufficiencies of the Slovenian road-traffic criminal law are analyzed, mainly with the help of comparative criminal law and above all modern German road-traffic criminal law.