It was a traffic accident, how about this, if you're involved in a traffic accident and someone dies you should volunteer for 7 years in prison. There are literally 30,000+ MV accident deaths every year, if we put every single person in prison because there was an accident our prisons would be overflowing.

Just because someone dies does not mean the person who struct them should automatically get prison time.

 

Automatic prison time! Wow who the hell said anything about that. Ive never heard about an automatic prison sentence for an acident. Do you think she should have just walked with no punishment? You need to put the shovel down before your hole gets any deeper.

 

would 7 years be overkill if you accidentally killed someones family?

 

I'm not defending the person...just pointing out what the POSSIBILITIES are and the discrepancies in some statements. If people continue to speculate, then the real facts are obscured...and the whole argument is invalid. You cannot make a judgement without all the facts...and we know the newspapers are notorious about with-holding facts.

 

If it was your family what would you want done? Answer that one.

 

We need higher standards for drivers in the US. The chances of "accidents" increase quite a bit for people who smoke pot, text while driving and are otherwise distracted and impaired. It is way to common to see zombie drivers rolling along texting - oblivious to the rest of the world.

 

From the article: I did jump to the conclusion that she was texting while driving. She could have pulled over to the side of the road, I'm sure. I was looking at the photos and it just seemed like if she texted three minutes before the impact area she probably was already on the road. Considering she thought it a wise choice to fumble with her sunglasses while driving I can't see it being much of a stretch to believe she could text while driving too. But, playing devil's advocate, you're right...she didn't necessarily text that message while driving.

The points I made before were not meant to say they are CAUSES of the accident but rather they speak about the decisions this person is making.

It does matter as it is possibly a contributing factor. You mention too tired to go to work but you still go. I don't know what you do but that may or may not be a poor decision depending on just how tired is "too tired". You work at a desk programming computers and you're dozing off, probably not a big deal. If you're running a locomotive, might be a bigger issue.

She states she's too sick to drive. To me, it could mean a lot of things but if she is the type of person who can be too sick to drive and it impares their ability to drive for whatever reason then it becomes a contributing factor. If she says anything happened that makes her "too ____ to drive" then she should consider waiting until she is no longer "too ____ to drive". Period. You can plug tired, sick, surprised, angry, upset, excited, scared, happy, sad, depressed, or whatever into that blank.