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Teacher Runs over Elderly Man, Given 4 Days in Jail

Patrickt said:
Distracted driving is not on a par with drunken driving.
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it is though. Just as dangerous, and aggregating to significant levels.

I understand. People use their phones, they cannot pretend they don't. They think "I use it responsibly", or "I only do it occasionally", or "I'd never do it in traffic". I'm sure many of the same excuses were used for drunk driving back in the day. But when one engages in the behavior, they don't want it punished severely because they don't want to face those ramifications. Whereas something they don't think they do, like driving drunk, they're more willing to overpunish and call for extreme measures.

The guy on his phone that t-bones the minivan, he's going to be on his phone again in the future. And it doesn't matter if those kids in that van were killed by a drunk or the guy on the phone...they're dead.

So yes, actions that are as dangerous as drunk driving and cause similar consequences should be punished similarly. I get that many of you are on your phones while driving and thus don't want this dangerous and easily avoided act to be heavily punished despite the fact that distracted driving accidents and fatalities are starting to rival DUI because you don't want to face the repercussions of the action. But they create the same dangers, they create accidents and fatalities just like drunk driving, and should thusly be punished similarly to drunk driving.
 
truthatallcost said:
All accounts say that Tikalsky was a well liked guy, who drove a school bus at 79 years old. He was killed by a texting school teacher. Of all people, you'd expect a school teacher to not be a clueless idiot about texting while driving.

Is 4 days in jail enough for this crime?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-79-year-old-man-her-sentence-4-days-in-jail/
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:lol: what in the **** does the driver being a teacher have to do with anything?
 
Bodhisattva said:
:lol: what in the **** does the driver being a teacher have to do with anything?
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Wouldn't you expect, or at least hope, that a teacher would be more responsible than the kids that she teaches? This texting while driving **** is something you'd expect of a 16 year old, not a 48 year old school teacher.
 
Bodhisattva said:
How about changing the CD? Reaching for your babies pacifier?
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Might not be the best idea if you have a child in the car to be taking your eyes off the road in general. What are the general findings on the distraction of changing CDs? What makes texting and driving particularly so dangerous is that is provides visual, manual, and cognitive distractions all at once. The studies are quite clear on this one, texting and driving is extremely dangerous. There are forms of distracted driving that may only call into effect one of these distractions, and thus are less likely to cause issues or aggregate to significant levels. But distracted driving is severely on the uptick, and cell phones are leading that charge.

It's over 3,000 deaths per year from distracted driving. Think about that. A 9/11 a year from distracted driving, and we started an Infinity War over 9/11, and that happened but once. And it's over 400,000 injuries/year from distracted driving. Obviously it's getting worse, all the stats show that those numbers are on the rise. We take such a hard line with drunk driving because of the dangers it presents to the public and due to it being a very significant cause of accident fatalities. Why should we shirk away from other behavior that is shown to be just as dangerous and that is on the upswing in terms of causing injury and death?

Now, if you are reaching for your babies pacifier, you take your hands off the wheel to find it, turn around to try to give it to them, and you kill someone in the wreck you cause...damned straight more than 4 days. That would be such a ridiculous move that it would warrant punishment on the level of DUI.
 
truthatallcost said:
All accounts say that Tikalsky was a well liked guy, who drove a school bus at 79 years old. He was killed by a texting school teacher. Of all people, you'd expect a school teacher to not be a clueless idiot about texting while driving.

Is 4 days in jail enough for this crime?

Thoughts?
Comments?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-79-year-old-man-her-sentence-4-days-in-jail/
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Don't know.

Is society still in danger from her? Probably not and if not, 4 days is enough, no sense in wasting taxpayer resources on an excessive punishment that won't accomplish a damn thing.

Punish her up with monthly restitution payments to the victim's family.
 
truthatallcost said:
Wouldn't you expect, or at least hope, that a teacher would be more responsible than the kids that she teaches? This texting while driving **** is something you'd expect of a 16 year old, not a 48 year old school teacher.
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I would hope that everybody would but just as there are idiot lawyers there are idiot teachers...
 
Ikari said:
Now, if you are reaching for your babies pacifier, you take your hands off the wheel to find it, turn around to try to give it to them, and you kill someone in the wreck you cause...damned straight more than 4 days. That would be such a ridiculous move that it would warrant punishment on the level of DUI.
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OK then...
 
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