Anonymous wrote:It was a birthday outing, not a wedding.
(Close friend of friend posting about it on fb)
Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
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.
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
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
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.