Posted on 04/21/2022 11:09:59 AM PDT by Houserino
The Tennessee legislature passed a bill Wednesday that would require drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a parent and are convicted of vehicular homicide due to intoxication. The legislation passed through the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday following an amendment to rename the bill after the two daughters of state police officer Nicholas Galinger, who was killed in a hit-and-run by a drunk driver in 2019, according to CBS 46. PA WOMAN CHARGED IN DUI DEATHS OF 2 STATE TROOPERS, CIVILIAN BRAGGED SHE WAS ‘BEST DRUNK DRIVER’ WEEKS BEFORE A DUI check point in Anaheim, CA. A DUI check point in Anaheim, CA. (istock) The legislation, which has yet to be signed into law, requires DUI drivers convicted of either vehicular homicide or aggravated vehicular homicide due to intoxication to pay child support if a parent killed in a crash has any minor children. The payments would continue until each child reaches 18 years old and graduates from high school. Galinger's killer, Janet Hind, drove into him from behind while he was investigating a manhole cover overflowing with water. Hind was intoxicated at the time and was sentenced to 11 years in prison in February.
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Good for us
Does this mean the DUI guy gets all the life insurance and lawsuit proceeds?
These morons don’t even read the latest laws. How are they going to follow anything?
Next they should make anyone that’s at-fault for a wreck cause of texting or falls asleep liable too, I guess?
Twitter already saying to make you liable if someone steals a gun from you and it’s used in a crime..
This just in....Turnip to give blood.
Of coures they are, because liberals don’t understand the concept of personal responsibility....
You drive drunk you chose and kill someone, that death is directly tied to your personal actions.
If someone steals your gun and later it’s used in a murder, has nothing to do with your actions, the murderer is the person who killed the person, not you.
That is not even in the same universe.
Twitter users are morons.
The moral equivalent to their dumb comments would be if a theif stole their car and killed someone with it...the rightful owner is now responsible?
In this scenario, if a gun owner was drunk and accidentally discharged their firearm, killing someone, should they be responsible? Hell, yes, and in most jurisdictions they already are.
How about a law that requires people who vote for socialists to pay damages to the rest of us?
This makes sense if the DUI driver can actually afford child support.
But make sure there aren’t unintended consequences like the state cutting off support to the kids that would have occurred, if the DUI driver was not now responsible for child support.
Let the state collect the child support from the DUI, and make sure the kids are supported regardless of whether DUI driver pays up or not.
Child support? How is anyone making money in such a case. Manslaughter. Jail
In germany, the way it was em when we were there 15 y ago, someone gets caught drunk driving, never mind killing someone, and they lose their license for a year. To get it back it’s $thousands in driving school.
Another offense- rare- and it’s gone forever.
Killing someone? Child support. No. That’s stupid. Jail.
No one drives drunk there.
there is a dirty little secret that drowsy/tired drivers kill over 1000x more people than drunk drivers
What about road head?…
I’m guessing it’s going to be pretty hard to collect considering the perp will likely be sitting in a prison cell for the next decade for vehicular homicide....
Drunk drivers should be banned from driving for life and should pay everything they have to everyone who is hurt by their actions.
That’s what I’m thinking: from prison someone is going to pay child support?
That law might feel good, but makes zero sense.
I know of one years ago that killed a motorcycle rider and only got 3 years and her friends actually gave her a little party when she got out of prison.
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