Road racing is thrilling, addictive, unarguably silly, and egocentric. When it goes critically fallacious it doesn’t simply depart a path of wrecked automobiles, however wrecked lives, too.

Now a 20-year-old man from Tulsa has loads of time to replicate on that: 30 years, to be actual. That was the sentence handed right down to Dodge Charger driver Miguel Romero for inflicting the loss of life of an harmless girl caught up in a deadly road race in October 2021.

Romero, who was simply 18 years outdated on the time of the accident, was racing one other automobile at round 2 A.M. when he flew by a pink gentle and crashed right into a Jeep Grand Cherokee pushed by 28-year-old Audreaunna Williams. Williams and her passenger have been each ejected from the Jeep as a result of drive of the crash, which precipitated the Grand Cherokee to burst into flames, killing the driving force and leaving her passenger with critical accidents that required hospital remedy.

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Romero collided with a Jeep Grand Cherokee after failing to stop at a red light

The Tulsa Police Division initially charged Romero with second-degree homicide and DUI inflicting nice bodily harm however in a trial this February he was convicted of first-degree manslaughter fairly than homicide, whereas additionally being discovered responsible of the DUI cost.

No sentence obtainable to the choose may ever carry Williams again to her household, however he definitely didn’t sidestep a possibility to ship a message to each Romero and anybody else who enjoys racing on the road. He handed the Dodge driver 20 years in jail for manslaughter and an additional 10 for the DUI conviction, and people sentences will run consecutively, that means Romero was despatched down for 30 years.

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By the point he will get out, he’ll be middle-aged and automobiles would possibly nicely be engineered with pace limiters, GPS locators, and alcohol detectors that might forestall this sort of tragedy. Sadly for Williams and her household, it is going to all arrive too late. All of us take pleasure in driving quick automobiles on the road and having the liberty (inside cause, and for now no less than) to deploy that efficiency how we would like, however full-on racing on public roads is straight-up dumb.