- An 80-year-old driver in San Francisco was sentenced to two years of probation, 200 hours of community service, and a three-year license suspension after pleading no contest to four felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter.
Four people were standing at a bus stop in San Francisco, waiting for a normal day to unfold. A couple celebrating their anniversary. Two young children. A trip to the zoo. None of them made it. A driver lost control and plowed through the stop, wiping out an entire family in seconds.
Investigators say that the driver was traveling at nearly 70 mph in a 25 mph residential zone. Not a gray-area situation. Not a close call. A high-speed impact on a city street where people were simply waiting. The driver later pleaded no contest to four felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter. The sentence? Two years of formal probation, 200 hours of community service, and a three-year license suspension, after which she could apply to drive again.
This is the part that sticks with you. Every day, people choose to drive aggressively. They choose speed over control. They choose distraction and assume nothing will happen. Most of the time, they get away with it. Until they don’t…