No jail time for hit-and-run bike fatality in Texas
Too often the penalty for hitting a bike is too light.–Corrie
No jail time for hit-and-run bike fatality in Texas
by Gene Bisbee at 10:12AM (PST) on March 7, 2008 | Permanent Link | Cosmos
Bicycles. Cars. Hit-and-runs. Probated sentences. The beat goes on.
A Texas woman convicted of striking a bicyclist and not stopping to help was sentenced to five years probation and a six-month probated jail sentence. The cyclist died five months later.
The Lubbock jurors deliberated two hours before coming up with this ridiculous sentence. It means the hit-and-run driver won’t serve any jail time as long as she abides by the terms of her probation for five years.