Originally Posted by
homeless in ca.
Driver was only charged with "careless driving causing death" which is a small fine and max 6 months in jail.
The truck driver responsible for the crash at Humbolt was sentenced to 8 years. For 16 deaths, that's six months per death. Less if you count all the other injured survivors.
He was speeding and ran a stop sign, which was nothing out of the ordinary except that he did them at the same time.