[Motorcycle.com]

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Not quite two years after running over Chief Petty Officer Zacharias Buob in a San Diego road-rage “accident”, Darla Renee Jackson was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

Read more about the Wheels Of Justice: San Diego Woman Gets Six Years In Death Of Motorcyclist at Motorcycle.com.

 

[duc96cr]

She got off a lot lighter than he did. Phuqer.

 

[todcp]

Nothing "involuntary" that any of us could see in the film. Should have been pure manslaughter or go to jury.

 

[SP3]

she got off light - "middle term" the judge said. she should have gotten the max. she won't serve the full six she did get anyway. watch........

 

[2004 999s]

sentencing?

the expression on her face when the verdict came in like who me? some real sorry so called drivers on the roads today.how about probation for a pickup driver causing a bicyclists end stage experience? there ought to be no mercy for the taking of another humans life.Probation for driver that killed Michigan triathlete angers cyclists all you can hope for is a civil judgement for the surviving families & that the guilty will never exit personal bankruptcy.

 

[Duck king]

gotta stay safe out there people....sad....just sad

 

[nikwax]

rot in hell, bitch

 

[racer162]

Unbelievable she should have received more time.
The sad state is that she will be eligible for parole in 2years. No justice on that.
They should have said "no chance of parole" that would have been slightly better.

 

[jahjah]

It's sickening. I have watched my city, Portland, go from a town your could transit across in a half hours to a traffic nightmare as the density increases. Oregonians have always zippered at an on ramp but the many of immigrants from the state to the south of us hug a bumper and look straight ahead, only giving way when losing a game of chicken.

Yesterday, I had to drive across town to my daughter's to help her with a sick dog. I was on I-5 and moving up a bridge ramp with a merge lane to the right. The newish Honda Civic in front of me decided to not let a car in. Maybe she was spaced out, I don't know but I left plenty of room for the man in an SUV to get behind her. He didn't. He pulled his bumper to within about 2 inches of the woman's front fender and hung his entire upper torso out of the window while he screamed at her and flipper her off in an animated fashion for about 90 seconds. We were stopped. She could not move. I though there was a good chance he was going to get out of his car. After a while, mid screaming rant, he turned and looked at me across the space I had left for him to merge. I pointed to my $40 dash cam with one finger. He retracted into his vehicle and backed it up a couple feet. I like to think he gave a thought to how he must have looked during his tirade.

I was actually concerned he might get out or pull a gun out and I would be helpless. I see this type of behavior at least once a month. The thing about it is, it's almost always a big guy yelling at a woman. This story is a good example that it isn't always a guy being the bully.

In the news story, I don't know what they argued about. I think usually somebody feels cheated or gets scared. We have a saying in our family, "let the cheaters merge". It turns out traffic keeps moving a whole lot better if you do than when you try to squeeze a cheater out.

We are kind of a liberal state and all, but when we attempted to make a few changes to allow lane splitting at intersections, the last woman to speak before the vote said, "they should have to wait like everybody else." So, we wait to get crushed.

 

[2004 999s]

dash cams/

seem to be leveling the playing field.more drivers in a rush these days than not.

 

[John]

The situation will only get worst as society continues to run unabated with old ideas that actually contributes to more congestion and fried nerves. Here in my town we are back to the urban sprawl mode of growth, the city just approving a massive new home project and a few others just for fun. But do they consider the fact we have no water to supply these tract homes? Just like the guy from Oregon above, we are also subjected to urban immigrants from the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles, have been for years. I myself transplanted 35 years ago to escape congestion and use our higher home values to move into something better. This is the endless vicious cycle we have created, all it takes is to see what the home values are in the San Francisco clear to past San Jose are and you understand why so many people leave for "better" pastures. It may be better in the beginning, but we are actually creating another scenario modeled after the environment we escaped. With their pockets filled with equity from the sale of their homes, the transplants scoop up new homes, custom homes like drunken sailors, the developers cash in by raising prices because they can, but by doing this leave native residents limited opportunities because their pay is lower or their equity isn't as strong, not even close actually. I can see why there is resentment due to the inflated home prices and ridiculous rents common to those large urban areas. My daughter has an opportunity to move back to California from Michigan when a job transfer opportunity came up in the San Jose area. We were excited to hear this until I did a quick check of rental rates for a small apartment in a safe area, I knew the rates would be higher, but for an average one bdrm she will be looking at around $1,800-$2,000 a month! No wonder young people are fleeing or still living with their parents, how can this kind of arrangement continue and this is just one factor adding to the stress level of everybody. Not every one can become a computer guy, the rest of the world has to live as well.

To help relieve some of these built up emotions and relevant to the discussion regarding road rage, you can argue that allowing lane splitting actually helps reduce frustrations by allowing motorcyclists to legally ride between lanes as we have been doing here in California for years. We have the distinction of being the only state in the Union that allows it, recently made officially legal to do. Prior to that you could just about split traffic right in front of a CHP Officer and unless you weren't doing something stupid, they would look the other way. The notion of splitting traffic was never without controversy in the eyes of the driving public, most flat out thought it was illegal and the rest just didn't like people cutting in line. Many road rage encounters probably started with a lane splitting incident, not that the motorcyclist was always the innocent party either, because how many times have you seen idiots splitting at unsafe speeds? The situation goes from zero to tragedy when one of the parties, like the stupid lady in the motorcycle fatality case decides to do something about it. But, by making lane splitting legal here (under specific conditions) finally adds clarity to the argument, as more drivers become aware lane splitting is legal, they can't use that as a reason to ignite their
emotions and act like an asshole in response to it.

Allowing motorcyclists to lane split is a smart option with many benefits, as a motorcyclist, I'm glad I live in California. I remember back in 04 or 05 I stopped by a Ducati event at the Portland race track while I was up there on business. I almost stepped up to get a two up ride with Doug Polen, but backed down when I saw his previous two up ride was a cruise around the race track like he was on a Sunday drive. I wanted the Randy Mamola experience! BTW, Randy grew up in the city where I was a cop, stories floated about his street riding skills when he was a kid, if you know what I mean. Anyway, the track event ended around the same time as commute hour and I noticed the highway next to the race track was bumper to bumper heading towards the bridge over the Columbia River. What I found strange was the number of motorcyclists stuck in this traffic and for Portland it was an unseasonably hot day out as well. I thought, "why don't these people just split traffic?" I quickly realized they didn't have the luxury to do so and just the sight of them sitting there baking inside those leathers and their motors screaming for air, I felt sorry for them.