Busy painting her nails, strikes and kills motorcyclist.

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30558822/from/ET/

 Rob Kleinschmidt wrote:

Now this is someone who needs to be charged with vehicular homicide,
criminal negligence, and anything else that the DA thinks that he or she can
make stick.

 
There are groups of lawyers (example 1-800-4-bikers) who specialize in first
putting the criminal in jail to make the rest of their job easier, then
plundering any assets the fool might have.  The son needs to call them.  I
have seen them work.  A drunk rear ended and killed a rider in Virginia.
The States Atty simply charged him with another (his 3rd) DUI.  The rider's
dad called in some biker atty's.  They threatened to sue the States Atty if
he didn't charge then prosecute the drunk as they showed him.  Drunk got 5
years.  His wife divorced him to keep their house and learned she didn't
need him so when he got out he was divorced and pennyless.

 Rob Kleinschmidt wrote:

Is that the whole link, Rob?  Didn't get anything for me...

Bob M.

 
Works fine for me. Story copied and pasted below:


Driver Painting Nails Strikes, Kills Motorcyclist

A motorcyclist was killed over the weekend after being struck by a car
driven by a woman who was painting her fingernails at the time of the
crash.

Anita Zaffke, of Lake Zurich, was wearing a helmet when she was hit
from behind by a Chevy Impala at a stop light Saturday evening at
Route 12 and Old McHenry Road, the Chicago Tribune reported.

"It appears to be a tragic accident and it appears (Zaffke) did
nothing wrong," Lake County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Scott Morrison said.
"She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and she could not
have done anything to avoid it."

Her son, Greg, told the Tribune that his mother was wearing a bright
yellow biker's jacket.

Zaffke was thrown "a couple of hundred feet" by the impact, the Lake
County Coroner said.

The driver of the Impala, Lora Hunt, 48, of Morris, told police she
was painting her fingernails as she approached the red light at that
corner, and she apparently didn't see the motorcycle.

Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said that Zaffke died from chest
and abdominal injuries about an hour later at Advocate Good Shepherd
Hospital in Barrington.

Morrison said Hunt was cited with failure to reduce speed to avoid an
accident and could face additional charges. The Lake County State's
Attorney's office says it's looking into criminal charges, as well.

"We are looking into charges in the case," Assistant State's Attorney
Patricia Fix said this morning. "But we are waiting for results of
blood and urine tests and waiting for the results of an accident
reconstruction, as well as any other technical evidence we can derive
from the scene."