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Old 10-17-2011   #10
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Re: So about the state trooper thread....

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Originally Posted by 1G4g63t View Post
you can't tell me you don't know when you're getting tired. stupid kid should have pulled off the road if he was tired. I'll bet his dumb ass was texting while driving. that alone is stupid and it's even worse in a construction area. but yes I think he should be hung out to dry for this. he killed people just doing their job in a place they were supposed to feel safe. at the very least they should make him do 180 days in jail so he has time to reflect on the pain he put those families through.
Thankfully thats not for you to decide. Again with the assumptions. It comes down to negligence and whether he knew what he was doing be speeding through the construction zone, or whether he was just driving normally and thought he was going to hit a cone or something and overcorrected. Shit happens, lets not assume things. And i would be willing to bet they have video on it. So I'm sure the truth will come out.
I am not going to pass judgement on this kid as it does no good. It could have happened to ANY one here. Doesn't matter the skill of the driver, or what kind of car, or what the conditions. We cannot punish accidents where it was truly an accident. The kid didn't run down the construction workers or do it on purpose. If he was speeding through the zone then yes, give him some time. But if he just simply lost control over corrected sorry but we don't want to go down this road. It simply comes down to Negligence. I had actually just heard a conversation about this on Kfan on friday talking about some case going on. If we start prosecuting people for true accidents where the person was just Negligent, based on the result of the negligence, then whats to say we can't prosecute parents to lose track of their kids at the beach and the kid drowns. etc.
If the kid would have crashed anywhere else, there would likely have been no injuries besides his own and this wouldn't have even been a story.
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