On Wednesday, a Massachusetts teenager was convicted of homicide for texting while driving. He will serve a one year sentence in prison. This has proven to be a landmark case for the state. The 18-year-old defendant caused a car accident in 2011 that fatally injured a 55-year-old man from Danville, New Hampshire, in addition to seriously injuring another passenger in the victim’s car.
The defendant admitted to making a mistake, and insisted that if he could take it back, he would. The judge sentenced the teenager to two and a half years for vehicular homicide, and two years for texting and causing injury. The balance of both charges has been suspended for 5 years, and he is due to serve one concurrent year for both charges. In addition to jail time, he faces a 15-year suspension of his driver’s license.
Texting while driving is the leading cause of fatal accidents in the United States. If a texting driver seriously injured you in a car accident, you have a right to pursue justice and fair compensation through a personal injury case. If your loved one was killed in an car accident caused by a texting driver, you may have grounds to file a wrongful death lawsuit.
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