110 years prison time for traffic accident. WTF? What are people in US smoking?
@Moon @Mac_CZ I'm surprised at this, though I remember driving in Denver that day.
It wasn't just a traffic accident, I think a semi truck coming down from the mountains with no breaks with a driver who chose to not take the emergency exits on the way down for trucks with breaks out... Killed four people, injured many more, causing such a disaster that it destroyed the highway itself and many people's lives.
Anyone who drives down from the mountains into Denver knows those emergency pull offs. They look intimidating, because it looks like you have to drive off the highway, uphill into a sand pit and crash into several barrels of something, which will probably total your vehicle.... to prevent killing people on the highway at the bottom of the foothills.
Also I agree that 110 years seems like a lot.
Plus sometimes the runaway truck pit already has a truck in it, which can also be summer dangerous because that debris can fly, especially if the other guy's load is dangerous or if debris from that crash flies into the road and causes more crashes. Plus it'll probably kill the driver who does it.
@SecondJon @Moon
@SecondJon @Moon Still, this guy had broken car and just few seconds to make decisions. He made wrong ones. But who can say, he would make everything correctly, in such situation. There shouldn't be ever prison time for accidents. What will change there? They teach how not to make mistakes ever again?