if the story in the paper is to be believed, this guy hit a group of people crossing the road at a zebra crossing, I am not a lawyer but I think that is manslaughter at the minimun.
anyway, its very painful loosing a loved one and its made worse if the individual accused of causing the death walks free.
nothing much can be done by the family, especially if money is an issue. The only thing they can do is to try and push the story hard in the media, at least the dude who caused that accident will always carry the label of killer.

Ahsante!
And those bribed if any are cursed

Death caused to a pedestrian should be involuntary manslaughter, since the guy was overlapping then another charge should be dangerous driving. I thought we finally has tough laws, what happened?.

Mblo, what happened is that the 'price' (value?) of the bribe simply went up. I was shocked to find a perplexing hit-and-run case the other day where when the fellow whose car was hit went to report, he was himself held for careless driving.

I think our criminal justice system seriously needs to embrace the idea of restitution. If somebody steals my cow for instance, this fellow is taken to court, found guilty and subsequently jailed for theft, but I'm still left without my cow (and the income from the same). This whole idea of then having to file a civil case for compensation is honestly just too cumbersome and expensive for a majority of our people.

And obviously, back in the 90s (I think), our lawyers blocked the well intentioned plan by AKI to be issuing two cheques in insurance claims, one to the lawyer for his legal fees and the other to the claimant as compensation. Hii system ni ya majambazi!!