Rider killed by driver painting nails!!!

How can this be possible? I just can't understand how anyone with a conscience can NOT file criminal charges. And to say they're waiting for urine, blood, and toxicology results to decide whether or not to file the charges is asenine! Since when do you have to be under the influence of alcohol to be charged with vehicular manslaughter or negligent homicide? She wasn't paying attention. She killed another person. And she's not being prosecuted for it! That's a huge freakin pile of BS! My prayers go out to Anita's family. . . I can't imagine how sad and angry they must be right now.
 
yeah, from now on, people can use the "i was painting my nails" defense, i guess. why not? there's legal precidence for it, after all...
 
I read this post earlier today then set out to run some errands, not a block away from the house I see a woman driving down the road with her face in the rear view mirror applying mascara, within 2 minutes I get on the freeway and here's a woman driving with a to-go styrafoam plate of chineese food in one hand and a fork in the other shoveling the food in her pie hole. I politely shouted proper driving instructions along with personal opinions to each of these imbeciles, one responded with a WTF kinda blank stare before resuming her priority make-up session and the other responded with an obsene trash mouth and multiple hand jestures, at least it forced her to put the plate of food & utensil down momentarily. As I see it these actions are done intentionally and knowingly take away from one's attention to the primary task at hand "driving", this is equal to driving under the influence and should carry an equal punishment.

RIP Anita, what a tragic avoidable loss.
 
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RIP Anita, talk about one heck of a Mother's Day. She has been sited with the traffic ticket and there's an investigation underway. As soon as all the I's are dotted and T's are crossed the information will be presented; I want to say to a Grand Jury and she should be arrested for vehicular manslaughter , or whatever laws have been violated. They are following good procedures in an effort not to have the case thrown out on a technicallity.

The one that really blows me away are the folks driving and reading a book. How the heck do you do that ?
 
The problem is this: Nothing criminal occurred. Not much different then talking on a cell phone, sending text, spilling hot coffee in your lap, reading a book, eating.. etc.
She has to pay a terrible price for this poor decision.
No law can be written and enforced to prevent every bad situation. The public will not accept too much government inside their cars telling them what they can and can't do while driving

Those who have never been distracted in some form or another while driving.. cast the first stone.
It is a terrible thing she has done but there was no intent. There was negligence maybe gross negligence depending on who is making the decision.

Remember the most dangerous place in the world for most people is a public roadway.
35,000 to 40,000 killed every year.

RIP
 
BUSA159 said:
The problem is this: Nothing criminal occurred. Not much different then talking on a cell phone, sending text, spilling hot coffee in your lap, reading a book, eating.. etc.
She has to pay a terrible price for this poor decision.
No law can be written and enforced to prevent every bad situation. The public will not accept too much government inside their cars telling them what they can and can't do while driving

Those who have never been distracted in some form or another while driving.. cast the first stone.
It is a terrible thing she has done but there was no intent. There was negligence maybe gross negligence depending on who is making the decision.

Remember the most dangerous place in the world for most people is a public roadway.
35,000 to 40,000 killed every year.

RIP
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Really? because they don't seem to have problems like this in a lot of other countries, like Germany. Just saying.

IMO, she DID commit a crime, because she ALLOWED herself to be distracted while operating a vehicle. It's negligence, and negligence she is going to have to live with for the rest of her life.
 
BUSA159 said:
The problem is this: Nothing criminal occurred. Not much different then talking on a cell phone, sending text, spilling hot coffee in your lap, reading a book, eating.. etc.
She has to pay a terrible price for this poor decision.
No law can be written and enforced to prevent every bad situation. The public will not accept too much government inside their cars telling them what they can and can't do while driving

Those who have never been distracted in some form or another while driving.. cast the first stone.
It is a terrible thing she has done but there was no intent. There was negligence maybe gross negligence depending on who is making the decision.

Remember the most dangerous place in the world for most people is a public roadway.
35,000 to 40,000 killed every year.

RIP
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I can see where you're coming from, but at the same time, you can't really put talking on a phone and painting your nails in the same category. I can see texting, eating, reading a book, etc. in the same category, but when talking on a phone (at least with me) I'm still watching the road and what's going on. The woman was deliberately paying 0 attention to what she was doing. When you drive a car you have a responsibility to pay attention to what you're doing. Granted, sometimes things happen that are distracting. Accidents happen. But this woman was deliberately distracting herself with a very high attention oriented task that could have easily waited till she got to her daughter's house or got home. Same with eating, reading, etc. I guess responsibility doesn't exist anymore. . .
 
IMO it all comes down to training and education. In the US you can go take a test where you drive a max of 25mph and get a driver's license and be let loose on the freeways to go 70mph that same day.

In european countries they take 6 months or more of driving instruction and slowly work their way up to freeway speeds.

I say education because our driver's are not aware of the consequences of their actions. The only fear they have is getting a speeding ticket. The concepts of responsibility in negligent homicide, manslaughter, etc, never come into play.

Driving is a privilege, not a right and it should be more difficult to earn that privilege. If this were true we would have less laws trying to protect the stupid from themselves.
 
Very very sad. A death and for what? This is terrible.

I hated the part where they brought the lawyer in. "She won't say if her client was painting her fingernails" then the lawyer gets on and says "Oh she's distraught, there are some things she remembers and some things she doesn't". Oh I'd be distraught too, but I can dang well assure you that you would not forget taking someone's life.

BS! That damn lawyer is more of a criminal if you ask me. She's ready to manipulate the truth and protect someone who's already admitted to negligence rather than focus on the real truth. The truth that someone loss their life because of a poor decision. That poor decision shouldn't go unpunished.

I hope for involuntary manslaughter. It may have been unintentional and without aforethought but there was a willful disregard for the lives of those around her.
 
So very, very sad.

RIP fallen rider.

How vain can you get to have to paint your nails while driving.

I will never understand some women and what goes thru thier heads.
 
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