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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't believe the bus driver who killed Allie Hart was ever charged... DC does not seem aggressive in pursuing manslaughter charges[/quote]

In 2024, an elderly pedestrian was killed while crossing Foxhall Rd NW on the crosswalk with the light. The driver who hit the pedestrian (and knocked her something like 100 feet) had thousands (I don’t recall exactly how much but it was around $4k) in unpaid camera tickets.

The USAO declined to bring charges and, in the end, the DC AG allowed the driver to plead to “failure to yield”, which carried a $50 fine, a hundred or so hours of community service, and a year or so of probation. I don’t think the driver was even required to pay their outstanding fines.

I imagine that the USAO / DC AG would defend such a weak outcome on the grounds that a DC jury would never have convicted for manslaughter etc.. If so, this points to a need for the DC Council to rewrite the law so that people who kill or severely injure people on DC streets through negligent driving can be appropriately punished.[/quote]

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