SunnyD
Belgian Waffler
Doesn't really matter anyway. DWI fatalities, he'll be on probation. Involuntary manslaughter at best.
5 families eternally affected, DUI charge... I ain't feeling sorry for him because he has to live with it...
There are conflicting reports that he was tested under the limit but the article says:
If you're charged with DUI, I'm just not understanding how he isn't implicated in the deaths also. Anticipation, perception, and reaction have to be affected and the point of impact by doing nothing (judging from how the center of his hood hit square in the middle of the limo) seems he should be accountable at some level.
Car crashes are called "accidents," but I don't believe most are accidental. I prefer to think of "accident" as a sort of thing where nobody is responsible out of some form of negligence - an incident that's unavoidable, even with some foresight. I don't think that making a horrible error in judgment is purely an accident. E.g., a deer jumping up over a bank from where it's out of sight, immediately into the path of a vehicle is an accident. But go off the road in a snow storm? That's driving too fast for road conditions. The vast majority of times that there is a car crash, one or more parties are responsible.I simply don't agree nor would I ever agree as a juror. Guy already has to live with deaths on his hands. Don't wreck his family over for it too. We call them accidents for a reason. Guy was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Car crashes are called "accidents," but I don't believe most are accidental. I prefer to think of "accident" as a sort of thing where nobody is responsible out of some form of negligence - an incident that's unavoidable, even with some foresight. I don't think that making a horrible error in judgment is purely an accident. E.g., a deer jumping up over a bank from where it's out of sight, immediately into the path of a vehicle is an accident. But go off the road in a snow storm? That's driving too fast for road conditions. The vast majority of times that there is a car crash, one or more parties are responsible.
I think on face value we would all naturally blame the drunkard, but this point above is concerning. We have it all happen to us anytime we drive, other cars block our viewpoint.Spota said the Jeep Liberty “completely blocked the limo driver’s view of the oncoming traffic in the main travel lanes.” And despite the fact that the main westbound travel lanes were not visible, the DA said Pino failed to take any precaution to make sure he could safely enter the westbound travel lanes and he continued to make the U-turn.
“A perfectly sober Steven Romeo could not avoid this crash. An intoxicated Steven Romeo could not avoid this crash. It was simply unavoidable from Romeo’s perspective,” Spota said. “Romeo can be held criminally responsible for driving while intoxicated but he cannot be held criminally responsible for the crash.”
SOUTHOLD, N.Y. -- The blood alcohol content of the pickup driver charged in the crash that killed four limousine passengers over the weekend on Long Island was below the legal threshold for DWI, officials said.
Steve Romeo's level was .066, Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota said at a news conference Friday morning.
How do we know the pick up truck driver wasn't speeding? I feel like that would play a bigger role than reaction time with low level intoxication.
How do you know he was? It doesn't trump the limo driver blindly turning into a lane that he couldn't actually see clearly.
I don't I'm just saying everyone demonetises dwi but speeders not so much. So we do know the limo driver couldn't see on coming traffic clearly? I'd say its his fault 100% then. If the limo driver could see on coming traffic and the pick up guy was doing 100mph and the limo driver didn't see him I say it was the speeders fault.
I think on face value we would all naturally blame the drunkard, but this point above is concerning. We have it all happen to us anytime we drive, other cars block our viewpoint.
The limo driver had precious cargo onboard and he weighed the pros and cons, and considered his ease to drive above the possibility of something bad happening to those ladies. W t F?? He could have burnt another couple minutes to let the Jeep complete it's left turn but no...
When I drive with my kids in tow, I don't leave it up to chance.