You should have your typing fingers amputated with a sledge hammer.
If he had done right by his boys they would be alive today.
A real man and responsible father would’ve sent his boys 100 yards ahead to fetch some gas from home, while remaining with the truck himself to flag down traffic. Remember, it was his screw-up, running out of gas in the first place, trying to make it home on fumes. Yeah, HE might have been run down anyway by a drunk, but those are the chances a real man takes, rather than endanger innocent young lives counting on him for protection.
You can be pretty sure every time the mother looks at her husband now she sees the thoughtless jerk whose recklessness brought about the deaths of her boys.