Posted on 09/30/2017 8:12:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Pennsylvania man who acknowledged he was driving drunk before a wrong-way crash that killed five people apologized to the victims' families before he was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison.
Thirty-year-old Gennadiy Manannikov, of Lake Ariel, was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty in July to five counts of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence in the January 2016 crash.
Before sentencing, he said poor judgment put him behind the wheel.
"I'm not a bad person," Manannikov said. "I made a bad choice that night."
State police say Manannikov drove the wrong way on Interstate 81 in northeast Pennsylvania for about 7 miles before colliding head-on with another vehicle. Vinodchandra Patel, 68; Komal Vyas, 30; and Shilpaben Patel, 29, were pronounced dead at the scene. Bhaveshkumar Patel, 42, died about a week later. Also killed was a passenger in Manannikov's car, 32-year-old Ashley Wheeler.
"I don't think we've ever seen such a tragedy," Lackawanna County District Attorney Shane Scanlon said.
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Guess he wasn’t rich enough like that kid who killed four(?) because he was too rich to go to prison.
Thirty-year-old Gennadiy Manannikov, of Lake Ariel, was sentenced Friday. Vinodchandra Patel, 68; Komal Vyas, 30; and Shilpaben Patel, 29, were pronounced dead at the scene. Bhaveshkumar Patel, 42, died about a week later. Also killed was a passenger in Manannikov’s car, 32-year-old Ashley Wheeler.
Was this in the Czech Republic, or India? I seem to have missed that part.
Okay, okay, what a tragic accident.
It’s just strange with so many foreign sounding names.
Dunno about Pennsylvania, but in California the freeway lane reflectors are red on the downstream face.
In other words, driving the wrong way on a freeway at night means driving past numerous red flashes as your headlights illuminate the markers.
I believe that kid is presently incarcerated.
How did you find out about those flashes? ;-)
Are Smith and Jones still the most common surnames in America? I doubt it.
Got off easy. No excuse for climbing behind the wheel blasted and destroying someone else’s family.
The red reflective markers work, but just to a point. They require a certain level of cognizance, at least one brain cell must be active.
Good question. Lets see...
Smith and Johnson, but Jones does come in 5th.
https://www.infoplease.com/top-ten-most-common-last-names-us
I believe this is fairly current, last month or so...
Why is getting into a vehicle while blind drunk, killing five people, different than shooting them with a pistol or rifle?
When you put the first drink to your lips, you know it could lead to the deaths. When you pull the trigger on the firearm, you know it could lead to deaths.
No you really are a bad person. Three times the legal limit? Drunk on your ass and you get in a car and drive. No excuse
he had a history of anger issues...
but he got off...
he claimed he had a "coughing" blackout...funny, he never had to surrender his license....
A bad choice might be the first time he drove drunk. Maybe. My guess: He made the same bad choice hundreds of times. I'd also guess that many times he told himself he got lucky getting home alive, but then went out the next night and did it again. A person who does the same bad thing repeatedly is a bad person. He has 18 to 36 years to figure that out.
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