A driver who plowed through a group of cyclists in Arizona, killing 2 and injuring 11, faces a one year prison sentence. His driver’s license will also be suspended for six months.
Man accepts plea deal for 2023 deadly Goodyear bike crash
A driver who plowed through a group of cyclists in Arizona, killing 2 and injuring 11, faces a one year prison sentence. His driver’s license will also be suspended for six months.
After those six months, we need you back out on those streets running over cyclists and subsidizing our dying domestic auto industry, you hear me?!
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Insane. My friend is serving 6 months because he fought back against his violent abusive dad one time. This guy gets 6-12 months after killing 2 and injuring 11? Wtf is this system?
Afluenza, you know. This guy probably has rich and powerful daddy and mommy.
for international context here: this is (one of) the hottest major city in the country world; we have year round bike weather. This happens all the time unfortunately.
The hottest city != Bike weather?
They meant to say "bike melting weather"
People who live here are used to the heat. I ride my bike in >40° weather all the time. People who aren’t used to the heat yet will start to ride right before sunrise when it’s 27-30°. To give you another frame of reference: I set my HVAC to 25.5° year round and turn it down to 24.5° when I’m “overheated” (room temp <24° is unbearably cold to me). We’re just built different here.
Yeeehaw
Sounds fair. I'd expect me smeared on the road by a truck is probably worth a couple of hours of community service. At least a couple. Imagine a beautiful Lady. That's at least a couple of months depending on the make-up. 2 cyclists and 11 injured yeah that should carry some prison. Specially if it was a nice Walmart bike with shimano part upgrades. Amazon electric... Forget it, that's at least 25 to life. But only if it had a fancy range extender. Otherwise maybe 15 years?
Hopefully they learn their lesson and doesn't become a repeat offender.
This is good. It gives the grieving families a year to plan how to get the bastard once he’s out of jail.
Obviously run his ass over in a Walmart parking lot.
Remember people, if you wanna kill someone, make sure you're in a car! If you're lucky you might not even get a jail sentence!
Remember people, if you wanna kill someone, make sure you’re a rich white person in a car!
Also doesn't hurt if the people you plow over are young, minorities, women, or - best of all - progressive activists.
He should never get his license back. What the hell. Only 6 months.
Unfortunately, traveling by car is seen as the default. Hence using something else than a car to travel is seen as taking unnecessary risks, which is why we see a lot of victim blaming.
Speed limit inside of cities should be like 30km/h, 20km/h during the times of day when school typically starts and ends, all day near a school. Fines for speeding should be 3 dayfines for each kilometer you're over the limit, with five percent of your net worth being added to your annual income for the calculation. 5 dayfines if you speed in a school zone. And if somebody throws themselves in front of your car, and they die, you should lose your license for 6 months. (Though in this case, all financial damages emerging from your license suspension should be paid by the estate of the deceased). In case of vehicular manslaughter that doesn't involve somebody deliberately hitting your car, the license should be suspended permanently.
Sorry for the rant.
misdemeanor? so like, murder is illegal, murdering multiple with a truck is kind of legal
There is no law and order in the US. If you want to diddle kids, just operate a Joint commission accredited troubled teen facility. There are literally zero requirements, and you can sue anyone who questions you into poverty!
Meanwhile a couple of parents in North Carolina are facing manslaughter charges after they let their kids walk to the grocery store while they guided them over the phone and one of them got hit and killed by a car.
And the driver has not been charged.
wtf
So, if you actually read the article, it says he claimed that the steering wheel locked up on him, but the NTSB stated that he suffered from severe fatigue. Maricopa county prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to press any felonious charges.
So, at best, this would be a case of manslaughter (which is a felony), but there's no conclusivity on whether it was with malicious intent or premeditated.
So no, he's not a murderer. He negligently fell asleep at the wheel.
You actually get rewarded for running over cyclists, one more and it would all have canceled out
I'd like to know whether that means he can drive for the 2nd hald of his prison term.
I guess he can’t be an uber driver for the county jail?
I imagine he'll face the consequences for the rest of his life, regardless of how the "justice" system handles it. Honestly, I'd be surprised if he lived 10 years before something happened to him. The victims had families.
wtf America.
So, upon reading the article, the NTSB concluded the driver was extremely fatigued.
Do truck drivers not get tired where your from? Is this incident really an indictment of the entire United States? Is the rest of the world a tragedy-free paradise?
So if someone got really tired and plowed into a bunch of ICE agents would get the same sentence?
If you drive while tired and kill someone as a result that's not an accident. You intentionally kept driving instead of pulling over and taking a nap.
There is effectively no difference in drunk driving and driving while extremely tired. Both impair your driving ability equally.
No, because we have mandatory breaks and such. Every second gets fully recorded and stored for authorities to check. Driving without sleep just isn't worth the risk of losing your license
How long until ICE sees his name and deports him because "criminal"
Sentencing people to life in prison wont bring the dead back alive. He clearly didn't intend to kill anyone and intentions matter. I don't get the blood thirst here.
I'm not asking for blood, just his license. He's demonstrated he is not capable of safe operation.
He killed 2 and injured 11
The very fact that you're having to ask why people want a bigger punishment for that says it all
Why should people be held responsible for killing other people!? You have a responsibility when you drive. To not kill people. It really shouldn't be difficult.
BANANA
Interesting hypothesis. I'd love to peruse an executive summary of your research methodologies.
It's short for bananas banana republic. As in the law is fucked up, or it isn't followed. USA has become a banana republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
I just though I'd shorthand it, because there are so many news stories that show this, that it's exhausting to respond to them individually.
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It's ok, none of the people killed or hurt were billionaires, so like.. they guy barely broke any real laws worth worrying about.