The driver of a pickup truck that plowed into a group of motorcyclists
in New Hampshire has been charged with seven counts of homicide.
Posted on 06/25/2019 6:30:07 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
Not good
He’s pleading not guilty
The caps above are from an eyewitness who survived.
He was driving the drag vehicle behind the group.
In 1997, I was driving drag for a group and watched a van mow two of them down.
I can’t remember what I saw while I’m awake.
But when I go to sleep....
Thanks for the ping, Salamander...I have heard this on the news up here and seen the accounts.
I look at it as what is more likely...someone coming the opposite way, who has had no interaction with the motorcyles of the kind that induces road rage in people...never seen them, doesn’t know who they are and intentionally plows into them for some unknown reason (suicide, anger at motorcyclists or people in general, etc.)
OR...
...Someone who wasn’t paying attention, had their face in their lap looking at their phone, texting something (or falling asleep due to fatigue from a night of drugging or whatever) while they crossed the centerline into the oncoming lane?
Occam’s Razor would suggest option #2. Doesn’t make it any better in the end result, he killed those people either way, but I don’t see why people keep saying he did it intentionally.
If he had been driving down the road, and there had been interactions, tailgating, passing inappropriately, hogging the road, fingers in the air, sure. Intent might even have been likely. But just because someone thinks “there is no way he didn’t see them” doesn’t mean he intentionally steered into them. And in the end...it really makes no difference. The end result is the same.
The whole thing is a sad affair, in the same way deaths due to drunks or texting are...people are dead, families and friends lives devastated, and the person who caused it has destroyed his own life as well.
Everyone loses, and even a justified prison sentence will never bring any of them back from the dead, or restore the happiness of the personal lives of the victims families and friends.
Perfunctory.
Russians aren’t immune to sudden jihad, can’t rule that out if he appeared to have turned into them deliberately.
He’s supposedly Ukrainian.
Don’t they have a Muz population?
They also said he was running around screaming and suicidal.
Hope no one interferes.
The driver of a pickup truck that plowed into a group of motorcyclists
in New Hampshire has been charged with seven counts of homicide.
I believe they do, and even if they don’t conversion knows no borders.
Hmmmm
Ditto
You’d be amazed how many people are openly weeping over the punk “ruining his life so young”.
It would be impossible for me to care less.
Hope his life sucks like a massive black hole from now on.
Makes me sick.
Hope you are right. Going to be hell living with that on the shoulders, if he has a conscience.
Blink of an eye, loss of control, worst case scenario develops quick.
Truckers have very large blind spots, and that is no shit.
This guy in the above referred to accident did not have a blind spot in front of his vehicle.
He was simply occupied elsewhere, if we give benefit of the doubt.
Yeah. He is going to swing no matter what, but...I don’t think he steered for them.
“You kill in jest but they die in earnest”
Doesn’t matter.
He slaughtered them.
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