So about the state trooper thread....

[1G4g63t]

Exactly but even negligence has it's limits. you're driving a car that weighs(forgive my spelling) 3 or 4 thousand pounds there is accountability to be taken into consideration. and yeah if a kid dies because his parents weren't paying attention at the beach and he drowns they should be charged. that's the problem with people today, we are raised to think we are not responsible for the events our actions cause. I would react the same way if it was my own blood that hit and killed someone. and the point is the kid didn't crash anywhere else, he took the lives of two innocent men, men with families. I think part of what ever sentance they give him should be that he sit down with the families and get to know about the two people he killed. the problem with this whole accident is that he walked away, alive, and there are two people in the ground because of it and two families ruined because of his NEGLIGENCE! think about what I said and try to tell me I'm wrong. this "it's not his fault" attitude is a dumb thing to keep saying.

[Revobasher]

Wow really guys? Dude was negligent no question. He killed two people being a dumbass. I mean cmon, with the FB posts and the fact this went down in a construction zone alone says wtf. Dude should rot in jail. End of story.

[93gtpeater]

From what I heard they said speed wasnt a cause. it sucks that this all happened but accidents do happen.

[GVR-4_FREAK]

I think that those who are against the kid need to step back and look at things from a different perspective. Put yourself in his shoes. I'm pretty sure he didn't intentionally swerve to hit the workers. It was in fact an accident, speeding or not, sometimes accidents do end up costing the lives of innocent people. That's life. I can assure you that the jail time/punishment the kid gets out of this will be far easier than living with the fact that he killed two people. That will stick with him the rest of his life.

[bramagedained]

I've not lived in Mn for a while so forgive the question if it's stupid.

Doesn't Mn have a minimum fine/jail for hitting a worker on a public road?

A lot of the states around here seem to have a minimum $10K fine and 2-3yrs jail regardless of the cause.

[tpunx99GSX]

Wow really guys? Dude was negligent no question. He killed two people being a dumbass. I mean cmon, with the FB posts and the fact this went down in a construction zone alone says wtf. Dude should rot in jail. End of story.

Without being there we have no reason to speculate. Just because he says on his Facebook he's going to test out his car, doesn't mean he was "Testing" out his car in that construction zone. But then again, i can't say he wasn't. The facts are that speed wasn't a factor from the police accounts. And I'm sure they would love to pin it on that to close the case.
And last i checked Facebook posts don't serve as good evidence in court.

[bertrenolds5]

How about this then, a stupid 21year old kid buys a fast car he knows nothing about and before checking the car for general maintenance issues like ball joints and tie rods with 150k on them he decides to be stupid and post on FB he's going to go race his car around when he has no experiece driving it. From the description of what happened it sounds like he jerked his wheel, the tires lost contact and since he probably had ball joints that were put on when the car was made it started sliding and pulling out of control and he finally lost it and unfortunately 2 construction workers were in the wrong spot at the wrong time. This is why when people post that they wan't more power in forums like tunners or talk I usually tell then to do general maintenance before adding any power because dumb shit like this will happen.


And I am sure the guy will be fined and put in jail, he posted on his FB so there is plenty of evidence he was probably driving to fast or aggressive. They will probably look at the skid marks to determine how fast he was going.