Driving through a severe thunderstorm is difficult and dangerous enough without adding the following other dangerous factors:
- talking on the cell phone
- being drunk
All of which led to this senseless and avoidable tragedy in Houston:
[Chanton Jenkins] A 32-year-old Houston man’s breath test showed he was legally intoxicated two and a half hours after he drove into a water-filled ditch in north Houston on Saturday, drowning five children who were passengers in the car, a prosecutor said today.
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Jenkins was talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone when he veered off the road in the 2200 block of Greens Road during heavy storms Saturday.
“It was a freak accident. He was talking and said ‘dang!’ and then I assumed he dropped the phone,” said Tracy Easley, who was the mother of victims Hallie and Karrinton.
No. It wasn’t a freak accident. He was drunk, talking on the cell phone, while driving through a severe thunderstorm.
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Driving drunk is bad enough. But driving drunk with 5 kids in the car with you?
What the #%$^ is wrong with people?
To my way of thinking, he should be charged with murder. He should be treated the same way as if he had shot each of these kids in the head with a gun. No difference. He killed 5 innocent children by his own hand and should be punished the same. He’ll probably get next to no time in jail. Unbelievable.
Well, he’ll get time, but not any where close to what he deserves. Nine feet of water and he couldn’t have dragged at least one kid out? Bullshit!
Some people have no common sense and ronkerr took the words right outta my mouth. The SOB should fry for the taking of innocent helpless lives!