This is a tragic tale- a 15 year old girl saved the life of a ten year old boy when she pushed him out of the way of a truck doing nearly twice the speed-limit. She was killed. Though she was so young, she was also seven months pregnant.
The driver of the truck, who was 18, has been arrested on suspicion of felony reckless driving causing death and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. The latter charge is a new law, only just gone into effect, in which the death will be entered into the driver's record and under which he could lose his licence for a year. It was introduced for those cases where criminal negligence could not be proven. As it stands, the punishment fo the felony charge is a paltry one to six years in prison, a fine up to $5,000, or both together. I would have thought that the fact the driver was doing twice the speed limit would be enough to have the more serious charge used against him.
Six years for killing a girl because of speeding? Not nearly enough.
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