03-05-2015, 12:26 PM
(03-05-2015, 11:02 AM)Donovan Wrote: The driver should still face appropriate charges if she was DWI. The entire point of those laws is that strange shit happens in the road. Shit you may not expect to see, like a tantrumming tweener or a stalled out car or whatever. Sober people have the capacity and necessary reaction time to adjust to the unexpected. Drunks and texters don't. While I won't she'd many tears over an idiot too stupid to get out of the fucking road, that doesn't change the culpability of the idiot stupid enough to drive drunk.
Yeah, I feel the same way.
I've dealt with a couple of stupid bratty moves by kids that I love. They grew out of their teenage idiocy, unfortunately Trinity died because of it.
If the driver was legally drunk, she should face charges for DWI regardless of the fact that the kid shouldn't have been in the road -- I agree. If it's determined that conditions would have allowed a sober driver to assess the situation and avoid hitting Trinity, she should also be charged with vehicular manslaughter IMO.