20 dead in upstate NY in limo accident

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not too many physics majors on DCUM today.

You’re full of it and never passed a physics class in your life.

It’s not a simple block going down an incline kind of problem. It depends on how things break up and who lands where or how things don’t break up.
It is strange that no one survived just given how many people were in the car.

These people hit a concrete toll booth going 60 mph and somehow everyone in the car survived and the guy who was tossed out somehow also survived and left the hospital after just a few days. This is also unusual of course:

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article212950589.html

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Anonymous wrote:The whole thing is horrifying. These limo "boats" are ungainly at best and that was a dangerous intersection. Seat belts? Unlikely the limo had them. What a tragedy for so many people.

It wasn’t a dangerous intersection.

The speed limit is something like 30 mph and the limo blew past a stop sign and hit a parked suv.

There are many of those idiotic hills with stop signs at the bottom. I think road engineers need to drive those roads in heavy vehicles before they design and approve them. Every time we encounter one we curse. Dig and smooth out the transition. Signs don't magically create brakes.

I was coming to a red light at the.e bottom of a hill, and when I pressed my brake, NOTHING. I had a couple seconds to react. I had my license less than 3 months (I was a 16-year-old), but was able to do it. (There were already cars driving through the intersection on the green light side. It would have been a fatal accident for sure. And I knew it as I was approaching and discovered I lost the brakes.)

So, if an inexperienced 16-year-old had the presence of mind to handle that emergency, why wouldn't a professional driver? I say that either he had a medical emergency or he was drunk.

Who gave you, a 17 year old new driver, a crappy car with failing brakes to drive exactly? Did you ever speak to them again?

My ultra-responsible dad. Are you saying he didn't love me?

It was a relatively new car (a Buick a few years old), but in those days, GM and American cars in general weren't great. It was a fluke thing with the master something-or-other, as I recall.

My guess would be that dad put off maintenance. Come on - brakes failing is not a fluke thing.

What did your mom say? Did she not rip him a new one??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not too many physics majors on DCUM today.

You’re full of it and never passed a physics class in your life.

It’s not a simple block going down an incline kind of problem. It depends on how things break up and who lands where or how things don’t break up.
It is strange that no one survived just given how many people were in the car.

These people hit a concrete toll booth going 60 mph and somehow everyone in the car survived and the guy who was tossed out somehow also survived and left the hospital after just a few days. This is also unusual of course:

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article212950589.html

Ding dong. That was a car with airbags, not 18 people being bounced around a metal can and into each other.

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Just read in the NYT article that 4 of the dead were sisters. So many lives ruined. Their poor parents.

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Do we think there will be more information coming out that will explain what happened, or do we probably know all we're going to know? So devastating.

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Nauman Hussain, 33, was convicted this month of 20 counts of manslaughter. His sentence today: between five and 15 years in prison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nauman Hussain, 33, was convicted this month of 20 counts of manslaughter. His sentence today: between five and 15 years in prison.

Good.

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Wow, that took a long time and doesn’t seem like enough. P

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Five to 15 years for a guilty verdict on TWENTY counts of manslaughter?

Any attorneys who can explain this? Is he basically getting 20 concurrent five-year sentences or what? This seems like very little actual jail time for so many deaths.

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Apparently there was a plea agreement for no jail time but the judge rejected it. He should be considered a hero.

[Anonymous]

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Five to 15 years for a guilty verdict on TWENTY counts of manslaughter?

Any attorneys who can explain this? Is he basically getting 20 concurrent five-year sentences or what? This seems like very little actual jail time for so many deaths.

His father is an FBI informant. I wonder if that had something to do with this sentence.

[Anonymous]

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Five to 15 years for a guilty verdict on TWENTY counts of manslaughter?

Any attorneys who can explain this? Is he basically getting 20 concurrent five-year sentences or what? This seems like very little actual jail time for so many deaths.

Consecutive sentences aren’t common in cases with multiple vehicular homicide victims. What he did was awful but doesn’t warrant 50+ years in prison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Five to 15 years for a guilty verdict on TWENTY counts of manslaughter?

Any attorneys who can explain this? Is he basically getting 20 concurrent five-year sentences or what? This seems like very little actual jail time for so many deaths.

Consecutive sentences aren’t common in cases with multiple vehicular homicide victims. What he did was awful but doesn’t warrant 50+ years in prison.

Yet five years or even 15 seems so very little.

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His father is an FBI informant. I wonder if that had something to do with this sentence.

That has to influence the sentence. It’s unconscionable that so many were killed because of their negligence

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Anonymous wrote:It was a birthday outing, not a wedding.

(Close friend of friend posting about it on fb)

So sorry for their loss. This is simply heartbreaking!

My thoughts and prayers are with them.