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Originally Posted by Presj22
Are you telling me that you wouldn’t be able to see a disabled vehicle in the middle of the highway if you were driving at the posted speed limit? Wow
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none of us were there. so none of us can definitively say what we would have seen or be able to avoid. let me re post this for you. Boeheim did in fact see the disabled car. he avoided it and that resulted in the accident where he hit the man. not gong to throw shade on the man but it's clearly dangerous in a situation like that. especially on an interstate which i'm going to assume has a legal speed limit of 65 mph. the police determined the speed Boeheim was driving was not so great above 65 mph to be a factor.
your argument falls flat. you contend the police showed favoritism to Boeheim due to his so-called celebrity where there is no basis in fact that they did.
at this point you are simply grinding an axe about so-called special treatment of celebrities and using Boeheim to try to make your point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Boeheim#Personal_life
Around 11:22 p.m. on February 20, 2019, Boeheim was driving his car on
Interstate 690 in
Syracuse when he struck and killed a 51-year-old man who was standing near the side of the road.
[61] The accident was reportedly a result of a disabled car being in the middle of the road in bad weather. When Boeheim maneuvered around the other car, he struck the man, who had been a passenger in the disabled car. Field, speed, and sobriety tests were administered by police. Boeheim was speeding, but Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick determined the collision would have been fatal even if Boeheim was going the speed limit at the time.
[62] It was additionally found that the disabled vehicle did not have lights on and had non-operational rear marker lights, and that the passengers of the disabled car, including the man who was struck and killed, were wearing dark clothing. Boeheim was not charged relating to the incident.
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is there anything above you dispute about the conditions, bad weather, the car not having lights on which is problematic because even with mechanical failure it's very rare the battery is directly affected to where the lights don't operate. isn't the first thing you should do by common sense is keep your lights on at night and turn on your emergency flashers? especially at night in bad weather. was it the battery that failed? it's not stated, regardless the car's lights and flashers were not on.
you could make the case that the driver was at fault for operating a vehicle without functioning equipment.
