McPhee, I'm not intimately familiar with Pennsylvania law (I'm from Ohio and live in California), but I am absolutely certain that if a driver rear ends a stationary car with enough force that a person between that car and the next one in front of it was crushed to death, that driver committed SOME kind of offense; if nothing else failure to control, almost certainly speeding as well.
Do you have any idea how much force had to be involved for a collision like this to happen? There is literally no way for this collision to have happened as described without the driver involved having done something reckless and illegal.
And no, accidents don't "just happen." Excepting the remote possibility of some kind of unforeseeable mechanical failure, this collision was COMPLETELY preventable. All drivers, (you, me, everybody) have a responsibility to drive safely. This driver failed in that responsibility and someone died as a result. They should be held accountable for that. I'm not sure that jail time for something like this is appropriate (though plenty of people have been jailed for involuntary manslaughter, which IMO is what this is), but at the VERY least, their driver's license should be suspended, if not rescinded alltogether. They have demonstrated that their ability to handle the responsibility of operating a 3000-5000 pound machine in public space is questionable at best.
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Do you have any idea how much force had to be involved for a collision like this to happen? There is literally no way for this collision to have happened as described without the driver involved having done something reckless and illegal.
And no, accidents don't "just happen." Excepting the remote possibility of some kind of unforeseeable mechanical failure, this collision was COMPLETELY preventable. All drivers, (you, me, everybody) have a responsibility to drive safely. This driver failed in that responsibility and someone died as a result. They should be held accountable for that. I'm not sure that jail time for something like this is appropriate (though plenty of people have been jailed for involuntary manslaughter, which IMO is what this is), but at the VERY least, their driver's license should be suspended, if not rescinded alltogether. They have demonstrated that their ability to handle the responsibility of operating a 3000-5000 pound machine in public space is questionable at best.