Man accepts plea deal for 2023 deadly Goodyear bike crash
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The man accused of killing two people in a cycling crash and injuring over a dozen more in Goodyear more than two years ago has accepted a plea deal.
  • lennee@lemmy.world
    1513·
    1 month ago

    misdemeanor? so like, murder is illegal, murdering multiple with a truck is kind of legal

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
      40·
      1 month ago

      Meanwhile a couple of parents in North Carolina are facing manslaughter charges after they let their kids walk to the grocery store while they guided them over the phone and one of them got hit and killed by a car.

          • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 month ago

            Ran into traffic?

            A witness said Legend stepped into the street and was struck before his older brother could pull him back.

            The driver struck a slow moving child who witnesses said had stepped off the curb and into the street. Stepped, not ran. The car then struck him before his brother could pull him back. There is no law against what these parents did. The driver on the other hand had an obligation to be aware of her surroundings including the children on the sidewalk beside the street who might step or fall into the street.

            It also doesn’t matter if the child was unsupervised. Did your parents keep you on a leash? Do you keep your kids on a leash? Even if the parent was there, the child could still have stepped off the curb and been killed. If the brother wasn’t fast enough to pull him back, then then there is no basis to assume that the parent necessarily would have been.

            Kids, unsupervised or not, do dumb things. The onus is on the driver to slow down when a potential hazard is spotted and to take steps to avoid it. Now, without more information about the setting I cannot say whether or not the driver should be charged. Maybe the kid wasn’t visible to the approaching driver, for example. But if the parents are being charged when there is no crime or real negligence, then the driver should be too and the courts can sort it out.

            • OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip
              2·
              25 days ago

              Yeah I agree it’s fucked up that the parents are in trouble and the driver isn’t. The article says the driver is 76… The father probably was jailed mostly for having the wrong skin color.

              I walked to school more blocks than that at a younger age. The article says the state doesn’t have laws that specify what age the kids must be supervised at to leave their own home. This happened mere blocks from where they lived.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 month ago

      There is no law and order in the US. If you want to diddle kids, just operate a Joint commission accredited troubled teen facility. There are literally zero requirements, and you can sue anyone who questions you into poverty!

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      8·
      1 month ago

      It doesn’t seem to have been done intentionally, so at best it’s involuntary manslaughter. They think he may have fallen asleep or something.

        • BussyCat@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 month ago

          It meets the exact spirt of involuntary manslaughter. Where his negligence either through faulty vehicle maintenance like him claiming that his steering wheel locked up or by being too tired and driving a multi ton vehicle that caused the deaths of multiple people. And yet they dropped some bullshit ass charges instead

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
      53·
      1 month ago

      You actually get rewarded for running over cyclists, one more and it would all have canceled out

  • oh_@lemmy.world
    811·
    1 month ago

    He should never get his license back. What the hell. Only 6 months.

    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
      52·
      1 month ago

      Unfortunately, traveling by car is seen as the default. Hence using something else than a car to travel is seen as taking unnecessary risks, which is why we see a lot of victim blaming.

      Speed limit inside of cities should be like 30km/h, 20km/h during the times of day when school typically starts and ends, all day near a school. Fines for speeding should be 3 dayfines for each kilometer you’re over the limit, with five percent of your net worth being added to your annual income for the calculation. 5 dayfines if you speed in a school zone. And if somebody throws themselves in front of your car, and they die, you should lose your license for 6 months. (Though in this case, all financial damages emerging from your license suspension should be paid by the estate of the deceased). In case of vehicular manslaughter that doesn’t involve somebody deliberately hitting your car, the license should be suspended permanently.

      Sorry for the rant.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
    481·
    1 month ago

    Remember people, if you wanna kill someone, make sure you’re in a car! If you’re lucky you might not even get a jail sentence!

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Remember people, if you wanna kill someone, make sure you’re a rich white person in a car!

      Also doesn’t hurt if the people you plow over are young, minorities, women, or - best of all - progressive activists.

  • tresspass@lemmy.world
    27·
    1 month ago

    Insane. My friend is serving 6 months because he fought back against his violent abusive dad one time. This guy gets 6-12 months after killing 2 and injuring 11? Wtf is this system?

  • fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world
    191·
    1 month ago

    This is good. It gives the grieving families a year to plan how to get the bastard once he’s out of jail.

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    1 month ago

    It’s ok, none of the people killed or hurt were billionaires, so like… they guy barely broke any real laws worth worrying about.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
    171·
    1 month ago

    Sounds fair. I’d expect me smeared on the road by a truck is probably worth a couple of hours of community service. At least a couple. Imagine a beautiful Lady. That’s at least a couple of months depending on the make-up. 2 cyclists and 11 injured yeah that should carry some prison. Specially if it was a nice Walmart bike with shimano part upgrades. Amazon electric… Forget it, that’s at least 25 to life. But only if it had a fancy range extender. Otherwise maybe 15 years?

    Hopefully they learn their lesson and doesn’t become a repeat offender.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
    186·
    1 month ago

    Prosecutor needs to be tried for treason. At the very least there needs to be a permanent license suspension.

  • Horsey@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 month ago

    for international context here: this is (one of) the hottest major city in the country world; we have year round bike weather. This happens all the time unfortunately.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 month ago

    It’s really cool how judges would say that all human lives are equal but also closely match them to their net worth…

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    After those six months, we need you back out on those streets running over cyclists and subsidizing our dying domestic auto industry, you hear me?!

    • Judge in this case after doing his sentencing

    /s

  • diptchip@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    I imagine he’ll face the consequences for the rest of his life, regardless of how the “justice” system handles it. Honestly, I’d be surprised if he lived 10 years before something happened to him. The victims had families.