Quote Originally Posted by quickdodge®
I don't have any "classical" anything for this. I have my own feelings about anything. Everyone on IA knows that I can't stand an idiot driver and wish death upon all people that drive like this guy. This was just an accident waiting to happen with his erratic driving. He wasn't being forced to drive this way. It was intentional. It wasn't like he was forced to accidentally cut the limo off. It was idiotic driving style that did it. In the case of the non-survivors and their survival chances, you used the one word that we will never know as a fact: "probably." There have been plenty of seat belt related deaths as well as no seat belts. Of course you used an ironic choice of word set. How can something be 100% probable? Isn't that a form of an oxymoron?

But back to the subject. He should face charges way more serious than just causing an accident. I think he should face murder (vehicular homicide) myself. Among reckless driving, speeding, causing an accident, fleeing the scene, hit and run and others. Why murder? Two things come to mind. Like I said before, he knew he was driving the way he was. He wasn't driving like that on accident. He was trying to "hotdog" on the freeway. The other reason? He left the scene. He says he went to go get help. It took him two days to find help? He only gave up because he was caught.

I agree with the point of wearing a seat belt wholeheartedly though. Later, QD.
My opinion is that the kid should lose his right to drive, not his right to live. You are trying to implicate that he intentionally killed these people. You don't know what the circumstances were. Would it sway your opinion any if evidence surfaced to show that he was fully applying the brakes, but pulled into the emergency lane upon realizing that he had no chance of avoiding a direct rear end hit on the limo? At this point, there's no possible way to know what exactly what his intent was. He was quite possibly breaking the law by exceeding the speed limit. The maximum punishment for that is loss of driving privileges, not death.

As for your citation of an "oxymoron", I'm sure you are smart enough to know what I was saying. Dissecting semantics when the meaning is clear is a fool's game.

I think it's 100% probable that he got lit at the braves game, caused this accident while drunk, then hid from the cops long enough to sober up so he wouldn't get the DUI on top of everything else.