State of Texas Austin man first to be prosecuted under new crosswalk law
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Crosswalk Law - A Texas law toughened penalties for hurting or killing a person in a crosswalk. It’s been in effect for three years, but there haven’t been many prosecutions. Investigator Arezow Doost looks closer at one case and why a Texas family believes it could set a new precedent.
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So negligent homicide was never a thing in Texas?
Exactly what I was wondering? Eighteen months?
@@jobethschlatterer1655 Five years *probation* for manslaughter?
%100 GUARANTEE if you/your family ran a red light (or any other accident thay resulted in someones death), your attitude would be totally different. I know for a fact it would! 18 months is more than fair for an accident...
@@brentfarvors192He’s a career criminal with other dead bodies to his goofy name.
Nah
What has this state come to? You mean to tell me I can't run people over in a crosswalk without being charged with a CRIME?! This is absurd.
EXACTLY. FAKE NEWS. Pedestrian had the right of way! ANY OTHER TIME & IT’S AT LEAST DEBATABLE & AMBIGUOUS, although we should still be vigilant for jaywalkers (innocent or guilty… sober or drunk or high… mentally ill or distracted or suicidal). However in this case, HE RAN A RED LIGHT, CROSSWALK WAS ILLUMINATED as SAFE TO WALK, & HE WASN’T WATCHING THE ROAD. FAKE NEWS. GUILTY. End of discussion.
@@PetrodollarDealEndedSoWakeUpSo you are saying all pedestrians are _fair game_ not just the crosswalk ones? 🤔
!!!! First the sidewalks and now THIS!?!?
America is going to H•E•double toothpicks!!
Shoo, back to california, if you want to get away with crimes.
Oh look youtube is hiding comments again. If you want to do such things, you should move to commiefornia, its ok to do it there.
HOLY CRAP!!! I knew Texas was screwed up but damn this shameful. I was taught 46 years ago that if you hit anyone in a crosswalk you are guilty.
Well unless you're a cop...
I thought this was always a law. I also thought running a red light, texting while driving and hitting a person with your car, no matter where the person is was against the law. All 3 laws were broken.
Yep ! A law already covered that transgression, but they wanted to tout the new unnecessary law that made people feel better.
At least they're writing laws that are already covered... In California they write thousands of laws a year that are new, original and toxic.
But, yeah, it's stupid to write laws for things already illegal... just enforce the laws on the books
Is this The Onion video?
So pedestrians were fair game till now?? 😮
Yeah, the " points game" was real...😂
Well, it’s Texas…the ONE Star State.
It's a redundant law covered by negligent homicide, vehiclar homicide and many other traffic laws that involve a fatality. There's too many drunk and drugged drivers for me to ever think thaat any driver is going to stop just because the light is red. I think it would help to move the signal lights to the near side of the cross street instead of the far side as is done in some other countries. Once you stop on one crosswalk you will never do it again because the signal light is above the roof of the car where it can no longer be seen. Too many people park on the crosswalk when they stop for a signal.
That law has been universal everywhere else as long as I can remember...
For years it has been a grim joke that The Florida Pedestrian should be put on The Federal Endangered Species List.
I was on my bicycle when I was right hooked by motorist in a pickup. I was in the bike lane at S Congress and Stassney. After the motorist hit me, the coward stopped but then drove away. Luckily I wasn't seriously injured but my bicycle was damaged and I had to pay to get it fixed. Since there were no witnesses, the crashed was treated like it never happened. Nationally, 25% of all traffic violence is a hit and run.
Not violence at all fake human
How do you kill someone in a crosswalk by running a red light and playing with your cell phone in the first place?
The guy should have been guilty of vehicular manslaughter and been thrown in jail. Probation? You've got to be kidding!
I'm guessing the real problem is not the law, it's lenient judges and prosecutors who just want to clear cases.
Blue City justice!
And that is a correct guess. People too lazy to do their jobs.
He ran a red light first. No matter where the pedestrian was walking. Even if in a lighted highly visual crosswalk.
Initially he got probation? And he screwed that up by not appearing to probation meetings & didn't pay a 💥$30 fee💥???
Yup!
I was hit by an suv while I was crossing in the crosswalk in Denver co and sge inly got a ticket for running a red light and not for speeding and they didn't check her phone to see if she was on it...
It ruined my life and she got a failure to stop ticket
I don't live in Austin or Texas. I used to go there to help my son out from time to time. I was struck by a car in a crosswalk while walking my dog in California and suffered a severe TBI. I am lucky I was not killed. People need to be more careful while driving.
What kind of insanity is this? Since when can you run someone down in a crosswalk and not be prosecuted UNLESS they aren’t supposed to be there.
Imagine getting a lucky break and receiving probation instead of the jail time you deserve. Now imagine losing that because you don't bother showing up to the meetings and paying a trivial fee. smh
So white paint on the road now lets prosecutors go after drivers who wrongly hit pedestrians in the crosswalk? So you really needed a special law in order to do this?
I'm pretty sure in most other states, without a law like this, the driver would still be charged with manslaughter.
Texas is pretty backwards as far as laws and the people, most haven't left the state, which is a problem.
So you mean to tell me it was actually legal to kill someone in a crosswalk up until this law was passed?
Does Texas not have Manslaughter charges?😵💫
Okay, answering one commenter who thinks that hitting a person no matter what the circumstances with your car is illegal. And no, there's many circumstances where hitting a person with your car is not legal and is literally considered an accident. That's why there is jaywalking laws on the federal books that any state can use whether they have a law about jaywalking or not.
He went to jail for probation violations, not the crime. Also, aren't their crime already against road killing? Why add more government overreach?
Why isnt he in cuffs? U don't let folks walk in any court without cuffs on" no matter the charges
the case is somewhat nonsensical. the bigger and more important issue is that he was distracted driving by looking at his cell phone. so how about a tougher law against that activity instead of some man-made. glorified hallowed ground of the “crosswalk”. he could have driven on the sidewalk, or into a bike lane due to cellphone use. cellphone use while driving is the leading cause of increased driving deaths over the past 12 years. address that.
or, you can ignore the real issue and just paint crosswalks over the all of the streets everywhere.
Especially full of folks!!!
Also, it seems that Texas has its head pretty far up. Its ass at this particular point because there is a number of laws that are part of the national highway traffic code so their federal laws that could be enforced at any level that would cover the person hitting and killing the person in the crosswalk or even injuring somebody in the crosswalk. This law is a complete redundancy and if anyone in the state of Texas was actually was actually confident when it came to using the federal laws that were meant to cover the United States as a blanket in absence of them having any specific laws on the books pertaining to that. Jenn, they wouldn't have had to make this law The particular law that could have been used in the case of the person who caused this being made is actually involuntary manslaughter or even vehicular homicide given the fact that she was in a crosswalk and the fact that she did have the walk signal that meant that she had the right of way and those are federal laws on the books as well. And the fact that it was a crosswalk with a pedestrian signal saying that she could go giving her the right of way is kind of the thing that they could have used in the first place. There's no reason that Texas should continue to have its head up. Its ass like it currently does and not prosecute the person who hit two people and killed one causing this law to be put in place and there is no statute of limitations in this case on prosecuting the person considering that vehicular homicide and involuntary manslaughter are both charges that could be on the table here since they are federal laws and any state can use federal laws as an enforceable law when they don't have a law that covers that specific situation on the book this is also an example of why I don't think that the individual states should be able to make their own individual highway traffic codes and we should have one national Federal standard highway traffic code covering all 50 states in the US this is also another example of why I think that Texas should be losing its Federal funding. They spent $6 million in enacting a law that is essentially on a federal level, a complete and utter redundancy clearly the state of Texas does not know how to use the tools that it is given to prosecute people for crimes as well as it clearly does not know how to properly spend funds because making a law that is a essential redundancy. When there's a federal set of laws that you could have used to prosecute the crime that's put this law into place is just a misappropriation of funds all together.
So, the very first example is a person with too much tint?
If they have the Go Walk signal, then I agree. If the pedestrian/cyclist is threading traffic due to impatience then the consequences are on them. The possibilities of insurance fraud is real.
Seldom enforced,!
Why’s he wearing a mask in 2024?
Because he couldn’t bother to report to a supervision officer and pay $30.00 to the court this guy is facing some real consequences. I guess even he didn’t think he should get off with just probation.
So the guy committed several other crimes, why do we need to add another one. Does it really make people safer.
It took AUSTIN to enforce the law, a first in the state.
Let that sink in.
So... does that mean you can be charged for striking a jaywalking pedestrian entering the crosswalk against the light when you have a green light?
Why is the light green? Pedestrians often forget AND frequently audit drivers, Stating Pedestrians always have the right away, But you can't just Step out in traffic and expect reasonably not to get hit. Its a common failing in basic logic. Hiding behind the Stop light pole or some other thing doesn't make the driver liable, but Figure out how to Write the original ordinance So that pedestrians understand when someone sites the law that doesn't just give them the right to do what ever, Cause pedestrians have the ..... Below is correct, Negligence.
They "could be"...NO...They SHOULD BE held responsible. We need to start being more responsive to the needs of the victims and less to the needs of the criminals...
At least put the car in jail.
Whose friend was the murderer, or was he just wealthy?
He got probation for that and then blew it?
And yall saying California got goofy ahh laws, goofy ahh laws are everywhere 😂
You think it is goofy to have a law that goes after those who hurt or kill people with reckless driving? Seriously? The six year old boy mentioned in the video seems smarter than you.
@@Rosarium2007 you'd think with common sense, we won't need the law. You hit anyone with a car you will get prosecuted. But people are that dumb Texas has to setup dumb laws for dumb people.
Every new law is like a Hollywood monster movie. First one downs a black fella.... 🤣🤗🤔😜🇺🇸
CZcams censors are working overtime today.
scw the sidewalk law this is murder.
put this guy away for 40 years NO parole.
😂 laws don't stop criminals, they create criminals with "laws" like this
This should be a national law.
Wtf, first it was dont drink and drive, then it was like uuhg put on a seat belt, then you get your self in a tissy cause you want me to have my kid in a special seat. Now this, whats next you want ME to Yeild to on coming traffic when im making a turn.
Get a dashcam, folks and USE iit. There are plenty of good ones that record in Hi-Res. Get one. USE it. Protect the video. It can save your freedom from suicidal idiots that walk into traffic. The State will stop at nothing to obtain video to prosecute you. Have your own to prove YOUR version of events.
EXACTLY. FAKE NEWS. Pedestrian had the right of way! ANY OTHER TIME & IT’S AT LEAST DEBATABLE & AMBIGUOUS, although we should still be vigilant for jaywalkers (innocent or guilty… sober or drunk or high… mentally ill or distracted or suicidal). However in this case, HE RAN A RED LIGHT, CROSSWALK WAS ILLUMINATED as SAFE TO WALK, & HE WASN’T WATCHING THE ROAD. FAKE NEWS. GUILTY. End of discussion.
With that mentality you should not be allowed to drive a car.
How about people look both ways before and while crossing the street? Those lights, lines, and laws are not going to protect you.
Lol.....so you can go directly to jail for burning rubber on lmnop's 🌈 but get probation for running a red light & killing a pedestrian 🤨🤨
I already knew. If its one people they'll make an example out of.... let's see how many others will get slaps on the wrist or the book thrown at them.🤔
We have healthcare officials spaying and neutering children without consequence.
Before cars the roads used to belong to everyone.
EXACTLY. Also: Before people, most of the land belonged to animals. Things change. FAKE NEWS. Pedestrian had the right of way! ANY OTHER TIME & IT’S AT LEAST DEBATABLE & AMBIGUOUS, although we should still be vigilant for jaywalkers (innocent or guilty… sober or drunk or high… mentally ill or distracted or suicidal). However in this case, HE RAN A RED LIGHT, CROSSWALK WAS ILLUMINATED as SAFE TO WALK, & HE WASN’T WATCHING THE ROAD. FAKE NEWS. GUILTY. End of discussion.
Not necessarily, lol. I am 91. Grew up on a farm,,very small town miles away. We had PLOW HORSES. On the one official dirt road,,to,from town. 1940s to 1960ds. Bet your City dwelling A##, "Pedestrians walking to town MOVED aside when Dads Wagon n Maggie n Jiggs cam thru.😊
@@alphaomega5909 I don't care how many horses you plowed and I wasn't talking about a hillbilly farm road. Go to bed, old man.
Forgive and forget. It was an accident.
So who died and made you God’s Vicegerent and Noblest on Earth, dispensing absolution to those you deem worthy?
seems to me this would have had more of an "enhancement " than a crosswalk law .. if you ran the red light .. point is moot .. regardless of crosswalk laws .. but like most states .. this is law in texas "
In Texas, using handheld cellular devices while driving is illegal and carries fines and potential criminal charges, particularly if the distraction leads to an accident causing serious injury or death. Enhanced penalties apply when it is proven that the use of a handheld device contributed to such accidents, with forensic data playing a crucial role in these determinations.
why wasn't this texas law used as an enhancement penalty .. he wasnt even charged with using cellular device unless the news is dropping the ball again not reporting the full real court docs .. which is probably the case
FAKE NEWS. Pedestrian had the right of way! ANY OTHER TIME & IT’S AT LEAST DEBATABLE & AMBIGUOUS, although we should still be vigilant for jaywalkers (innocent or guilty… sober or drunk or high… mentally ill or distracted or suicidal). However in this case, HE RAN A RED LIGHT, CROSSWALK WAS ILLUMINATED as SAFE TO WALK, & HE WASN’T WATCHING THE ROAD. FAKE NEWS. GUILTY. End of discussion.