Teen driver who struck cyclists with truck charged with 6 felony counts

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Source: Houston Chronicle

"Following a six-week inquiry, the Waller County District Attorney's office on Monday announced felony charges for a teenage driver involved in a collision with six cyclists on a county road on Sept. 25.

The 16-year-old driver was allegedly attempting to billow exhaust from his Ford Super Duty onto a group of riders training for a triathlon on Old Highway 290 when he lost control and drove his vehicle into the group, hitting six riders and hospitalizing four. The driver stopped and spoke with responding officers, but left the scene without charges or a citation, incensing local bike advocates and spurring a war of words between Waller District Attorney Elton Mathis and Waller Police Chief Bill Llewellyn over how the incident was initially handled."



Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/Waller-teen-driver-cyclists-felony-charges-DA-16603498.php

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about time....

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/Waller-teen-driver-cyclists-felony-charges-DA-16603498.php

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. Finally

[irisblue]

2. FAFO

Fucked around found out

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Felony Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. That's a very serious charge, folks.

In Monday's statement, the Waller District Attorney's Office announced the results of its investigation, which include plans to charge the teen driver with six counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon—one for each cyclist hit during the incident.

[Effete Snob]

5. As a juvenile, though

Meh

[getagrip_already]

15. he will likely be charged as an adult.....

At least he would be in an air breathing society.

[Effete Snob]

16. Nope

“Earlier today the juvenile voluntarily surrendered himself, and was detained by representatives from the juvenile justice department where he will be held in custody until further orders of the juvenile court."

[Probatim]

21. He was obviously born into the "right" family and has the "right" skin color.

Otherwise, he'd be tried as an adult.

[Effete Snob]

25. Yep

[Hortensis]

26. Come on, 6 felonies are serious. Most Democrats usually

see severe problems with charging minors as adults. Also with dispensing different "justice" based on race. The vindictive, punitive you-know-whos are behind that.

After all, minors are not adults and they're not somehow more guilty because they're black or white. Let's stick with that principle.

Also with efforts to achieve equal justice for all -- not multiply and spread injustice.

[ZonkerHarris]

4. If only the cops could have done the right thing and arrested him at the scene

[Sherman A1]

9. I thought I heard that Mommy and Daddy are big wigs in the community

The local cops may have been hesitant to arrest him on the scene for that reason. I don’t agree with their decision to not take him into custody immediately, but they may have not wanted to deal with this can of worms.

[ZonkerHarris]

20. Only in Texas is a legal arrest a can of worms.

[lagomorph777]

22. The AG earlier announced an investigation into the cops.

Maybe some of them will face charges, too.

[ZonkerHarris]

23. Good. It's a dirty county and PD

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Yeah

Link to tweet

[Old Crank]

7. If he were a POC

He would be charged as an adult.

[Sherman A1]

8. Assuming he was alive to do so

And that is not a safe assumption.

[Old Crank]

17. There is that

Isn't there?

[Woodwizard]

10. I used to bike to work on occasion.

And once in a while I would have some idiots throw something at me usually a soda bottle, it was always a group of guys. Then you have the idiots who lay on the horn just as they go by.

Now my work is 100 feet from the house and the road I bike has very few cars my biggest concern is people looking at their cell for service while driving. People do really stupid stuff in the safety of their metal cage.

[Old Crank]

19. Sorry to hear that.

I also have had garbage tossed out a me while riding along with the favorite punishment pass.

[AllaN01Bear]

33. ive been doored . bike totaled . door of car mangled . but i was ok. gave up bycicling.

glad he turned himself in.

[yardwork]

34. Did they do it on purpose?

[AllaN01Bear]

36. the guy was drunk and i could smell it on his breath and yes he did it on purpose.

[yardwork]

37. Wow. What happened to him afterward? Were you able to press charges?

I've never heard of that and I'm honestly appalled. I'd never heard of rolling coal either. I'm not a bicyclist.

[callous taoboy]

11. How can "rolling coal" be legal?

That pisses me off. I had someone do that to me on a dangerous stretch of highway when conditions were already dicey, and it compounded the hazardous conditions.

[The Jungle 1]

13. It is not legal.

These clowns custom tune the diesel engine to dump more fuel and it is not legal. They can be arrested and the truck impounded. The fine is 10k or 90 days in jail and is charged as felony tampering. Felony means no more guns for you dickweed. So the question I have is did the truck have a tuner on the ECM.

[Old Crank]

18. Evidently

You can mail order replacement tuning chips that plug right in. One problem is that smog checks on diesel trucks are basically visual in nature. You can't tell the difference by just looking.
States need to start hooking them up to the computer systems and inspecting the tuning chips.

[The Jungle 1]

24. They get around it because it is legal off road.

So they bomb us with filthy black smoke can we spray acid on their paint?

[callous taoboy]

27. The road conditions when it happened to me

were already dangerous with heavy traffic and light drizzle. The asshole who did it is lucky he did not cause a major accident. I had no idea it was not legal since I have seen it often enough here in TX. The other day it was some kid at the high school with a Trump 2024 flag on the back of his truck.

[Jimbo S]

28. I've never seen it done

Heard about it, but never seen it. Then again, I'm not in TX.

[The Jungle 1]

12. Wonder where he learned about rolling coal? Daddy????

[Old Crank]

30. You see a lot of it during truck pulls.

So then people think it is cool and want to do it themselves.

[The Jungle 1]

31. Just so we are on the same page.

To roll coal the emission controls on the engine needs to be altered.
It may be legal to defeat emission controls on private property / off road. It is illegal to alter the emission controls on our public highways.

[Old Crank]

32. No argument there.

Rolling coal on a public way should be punished severely everytime. Also diesel engines need more than a cursory examination. They need to be tested for emissions and proper computer chips.

[dalton99a]

14. So in two years he'll be out with a bigger truck and bigger TRUMP flags

[Johnny2X2X]

29. RWers hate bicyclists

Always have, they view bicyclists as libs who are trying to save the planet.

[yardwork]

35. I am so sick of these pathetic morons. I really am.

They seem to think that they're making us cry. The truth is that they're making a lot of us angry. Empathy is running out and a lot of these folks aren't as invincible as they think they are. I'm not suggesting violence. I'm suggesting legal and economic repercussions.