Tow Truck Killer

[piasabird]

http://www.bnd.com/2011/05/26/1723498/tow-truck-driver-gets-16-years.html

After reading this article, I was wandering if the driver of the tow truck which was high on cocaine and alcohol, and left the scene of the accident deserves any leniency. I think he should get the death sentence because he did drugs then got behind the wheel of a vehicle and killed 2 innocent people, and then left the scene of the accident. When is an accident just an accident and when does it become a homicide?

I think we are too lenient on some of these criminals.

 

[xj0hnx]

http://www.bnd.com/2011/05/26/1723498/tow-truck-driver-gets-16-years.html

After reading this article, I was wandering if the driver of the tow truck which was high on cocaine and alcohol, and left the scene of the accident deserves any leniency. I think he should get the death sentence because he did drugs then got behind the wheel of a vehicle and killed 2 innocent people, and then left the scene of the accident. When is an accident just an accident and when does it become a homicide?

I think we are too lenient on some of these criminals.

Toxicology tests showed that Donald Legens Sr. was under the influence of alcohol and had cocaine in his system when he died.

Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2011/05/26/1723498/tow-truck-driver-gets-16-years.html#ixzz1NTvZQKXy​

Which actually means he may not have even done it that day, it was just added for further effect.
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[Genx87]

I think leaving the scene of an accident while drunk deserves no leniency. That said the driver that was killed wasnt exactly innocent either. He was found to have alcohol and cocaine in his system. The only truely innocent person involved here is the child.

 

[xj0hnx]

I think leaving the scene of an accident while drunk deserves no leniency. That said the driver that was killed wasnt exactly innocent either. He was found to have alcohol and cocaine in his system. The only truely innocent person involved here is the child.

Interesting, I (and apparently the OP) was reading it as the tow truck driver was the one with the cocaine in his system, not the guy killed. Ikerman was the drunk tow truck driver, Legens, the dead father was the one with cocaine in his system.

 

[TechBoyJK]

techboyjk's hometown!

Belleville is pretty much the largest metro area on the illinois side of St. Louis and the center of what is called the metro east.

Belleville was in the news not to long ago because of the black kids beating up the white kid on teh school bus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFI-Hin91U

 

[Kadarin]

After reading this article, I was wandering if the driver of the tow truck which was high on cocaine and alcohol,

I'm suspecting the tow truck wasn't high on either cocaine or alcohol.

and left the scene of the accident deserves any leniency. I think he should get the death sentence because he did drugs then got behind the wheel of a vehicle and killed 2 innocent people, and then left the scene of the accident. When is an accident just an accident and when does it become a homicide?

I think we are too lenient on some of these criminals.

Jail time yes, death penalty no. While I'm very much in favor of the death penalty, I reserve it for cases of premeditated murder.

 

[WHAMPOM]

http://www.bnd.com/2011/05/26/1723498/tow-truck-driver-gets-16-years.html

After reading this article, I was wandering if the driver of the tow truck which was high on cocaine and alcohol, and left the scene of the accident deserves any leniency. I think he should get the death sentence because he did drugs then got behind the wheel of a vehicle and killed 2 innocent people, and then left the scene of the accident. When is an accident just an accident and when does it become a homicide?

I think we are too lenient on some of these criminals.

"Holy, did not read your own article, Batman!" I am sorry the child died.

 

[werepossum]

I'm suspecting the tow truck wasn't high on either cocaine or alcohol.



Jail time yes, death penalty no. While I'm very much in favor of the death penalty, I reserve it for cases of premeditated murder.

Yeah, I'd have said thirty years would be about right, considering that the adult victim contributed* but the killer fled the scene.

I'm wondering too about that little line, that the Legens family was "compensated very well." Is it really possible to be "compensated very well" for the loss of one's husband and infant child? Methinks not.

EDIT:
* Assuming here that the alcohol and cocaine contributed to Legens not using his flashers/parking lights and stopping in the lane rather than on the shoulder, which upon reflection may or may not be a valid assumption.

 

[Fern]

I've seen the situation reversed.

Recently, in my county we had a traffic fatality on the interstate. A tractor trailer stopped and did not move completely off the highway or have it's flashers on. A car ran into the back of it killing the driver etc.

In our case the trucker went to prison for the accident/deaths.

Now in this case, the idiot who didn't pull completely over and failed to put on flashers gets killed and the guy crashing into them goes to prison?

I wonder what would have happend had the tow truck driver not been drinking and didn't flee.

Kinda seems like he got screwed only because of his blood alcohol level. Don't think that's fair.

Fern