After 2 Deadly Crashes, Driver Wants License Back
They sit on the couch looking at the family photo album. Abigail and Steven Neff-Johnson, a brother and sister, hear stories about the mother and father they never knew. Doug and Paula Neff were killed in a car crash in April of 2000. The crash happened on Route 130 in Sandwich. Their daughter Abigail was only 3 and survived. Brother Steven also lived through it, but their parents were gone. Their aunt Heidi Johnson adopted them.
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Now the woman driving the other car, Monica Mullaly, is trying to get her driver's license back, even though she has another fatal accident on her record.
Look, I had a friend in high school who was involved in a fatal crash. He was going too fast, lost control of his car, and wound up crossing the center line on the highway and hitting another car head-on. His best friend riding in the passenger seat was killed, as was the pregnant woman in the other car. One moment's inattention cost three people their lives, and altered my friend's life permanently. He has to live with what he did the rest of his life; knowing that his inattention and carelessness cost other people their very lives.
The idea that he'd go out and do it again is unfathomable. There's such a thing as a second chance, sure. She already got that second chance, though - she had one fatal crash already. This was the second time that her carelessness took someone else's life. Do we give a third? I don't understand why we treat homicide committed with one tool (car) so much differently than with another (gun). There are rules and regulations in place in states throughout the country that deal, quite strictly, with the misuse of firearms; yet when it comes to automobiles we adopt a far more lenient stance.
It's time we started taking the tool out of the equation and actually holding the person responsible.
That is all.
3 comments:
I don't understand why we treat homicide committed with one tool (car) so much differently than with another (gun).
Probably because it's much easier to kill someone accidentally with a car.
In this case, I don't see any description of the second accident. We're told that her first fatal accident was because she "fell asleep driving home from the prom" (why was she driving, not her date or an adult parent or a chaperone? anybody else suspect alcohol was also involved?). But what about the second? What happened? Was it "falling asleep" again, or did she cross the centerline, or did her car break, or what?
I agree that we should treat some vehicular injury/homicide cases more seriously than we do -- but is this one of those?
Easy because even the worst nanny-state liberal socialist drives a car.
If they treated them the same way they'd be restricting THEIR rights.
Can't have that!
Weer'd Beard - actually the worst nanny-state liberal socialists don't drive cars. I work with one who doesn't own a car and takes the train when he travels anywhere.
He'd vote to take all our cars too, in a heartbeat.
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