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Here are some other thoughts. This article (the one I'm posted on now :) ) has a lot more info though.
idiocy... sometimes and accident is just an accident.
cite him for allowing her to drive, but geez...they didnt mean to kill anyone
No
But I would like to see additional charges against the DA herself in the interests of justice ...
Do you feel equally bad for the father and daughter as well as the victim?
No
The victim was not responsible for the crime that led to her death.
I feel badly for them, however, it was irresponsible to allow the daughter to drive without even a learner's permit (not that a learner's permit would've prevented the accident necessarily). Not only was it irresponsible, but it is illegal. His reckless judgment contributed to the young mother's death and while I don't think he should serve twelve years in prison, I do think that he should be punished. A plea is likely and will hopefully mete out the "right" amount of justice.
Not equally bad, but I get the point.
IMHO, criminally; the teen should forego a driver's license and be on probation until age of majority. The father should face the same charge as he would for just allowing his daughter to drive without a permit, and suffer the appropriate punishment. The death was an accident that not even a permit would have helped avoid.
Civil damages should provide for the orphaned child through college.
They were in a parking lot. Traffic laws do not apply. The father could be charged with reckless endangerment or manslaughter.
No an accident is when a person has no control of a problem.
A person who drives (aims) a car across a persons lawn and kills a person commits murder.
Brake on the left, gas on the right!!!
What, the father didn't have time to reach over and turn the ignition off? He couldn't take the car out of gear? He couldn't tug on the wheel and miss the woman?
What was he doing while the car crashed into a fence, crossed an intersection, and soared up the lawn?
All that said, I agree with the people who call it an accident.
I respectfully disagree. This is no more an 'Accident' than handing a loaded, cocked weapon to an initiated, unaware juvenile - And we are all too familiar with the potentially lethal outcome of that idiocy.
The father was skirting a logical law, one made to ensure that anyone getting behind the wheel of a potentially lethal machine, posses the requisite knowledge about it operation and control. IMO he is guilty of manslaughter and the juvenile is innocent in her reliance on her father that this was a safe way to learn to drive.
Remember in the old days when we actually had Driver's Ed and Driver's Training taught in High School? No more. Just another casualty in our over-lawyered country. Thank you very much greedy lawyers!! Just like our kids are fat and lazy because they aren't allowed to break a sweat during P.E. anymore because some shmuck sued over some accidental injury. I feel sorry for all the people involved in this. I think the father was trying to save the money driving school would have cost and teach his daughter himself. I would much rather the schools teach our kids how to drive than all the time they spend on "safe sex education". They won't stop teaching that 'till someone sues the district for some condom injury or something. :-0
yes, next time I think I'm having a bad day. I should just remember this article.
So didn't Newsweak create a situation where many were killed? Why aren't they being charged??
Ok...so to get a learner's permit, isn't a written test only required. After the permit is obtained, then you get behind the wheel. SO exactly HOW would the permit have prevented this young gal from letting the vehicle go out of control??
A horrible accident to be sure, but I think the DA is going a little overboard.
No.
Do you feel equally bad for the father and daughter as well as the victim?
No.
the car crashed through a fence, sped across an intersection and soared up the lawn,
And dad never thought to pull the EMERGENCY BRAKE?
Yes; and no.
Of course you have to feel worse for the young woman who was killed after heroically saving her baby, than for the girl and her dad.
We had a similar accident in NJ just recently --a girl who DID have her learner's permit was practicing parallel parking in a vacant lot with her mother. The girl accidently accelerated backward, crushing her mom, who was behind the car placing a cone to help guide the daughter.
Hmmmm, Lynne Abraham. She's a big leftie DA in PA. Didn't she have something to do with thwarting FReeper Don Adams when he tried to get compensation, after getting beaten up by union thugs while protesting some Clinton event?
Stinkin' Lincoln, I know exactly where this happened...