Originally Posted by JackIsBack
How much training is enough? Was the company negligent in getting him to drive too long? Was the truck not in good working order? Didn't the government issue him a license, obviously the government thought that he could drive that truck - maybe we should throw the government official and/or the poor person at the local motor vehicle office that issued him a license in jail too. I get it, it must be the BIG bad companies fault. If the company was criminally negligent, then for all means, go after them, if not, leave them alone.
We've all made similar mistakes behind the wheel, and hopefully and thankfully we gotten away with it with no one getting in an accident, getting hurt, or losing their lives or causing injury or death to others, but people do lose their lives everyday, those not so lucky individuals and times that do cause an accident... I just hope that if this ever happens to you or me - that forgiveness is granted.
A simple distraction or daydream moment, where you just drive without thinking, this happens all the time when driving on long trips, hell, short ones too and that's what happened here - it's as simple as that. We all do it - a bus full of young hockey players just happened to be there at that exact moment when this man (and the small family owned company that owned the truck) was blocking their way.
Jail is meant for criminals, not a person who is suffering from his mistake and will never ever forget or stop regretting it - the knowing that he killed and injured those people, that will haunt him for the rest of his life, this man is not a criminal, he's not a monster. Someone doesn't always have to go to jail for justice to be served. Companies aren't evil as well... a company gave him a job, took a chance on him, just remember that when you're looking for a job, or more like when your children or grandchildren are and don't have the experience - yet.
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