Letter: Litterbugs are the real culprits

Friday, March 2, 2001 | 8:49 a.m.

I think that the Jessica Williams' jury verdict was very fair. I feel sorry for Williams and also for the parents of the victims, but I don't think that she should get too much prison time, if any.

Life in prison won't bring these children back. She will have to live with this on her conscience every day for the rest of her life. This accident was a case of these children being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Had they been 50 yards to the south or 50 yards to the north, Williams would have crashed her car at this precise location and no one would have been injured. She would probably have been cited for negligent driving.

I don't think that the county should be held liable for this accident. Let's put the blame where it should be, on the people who threw the trash on the highway. They are the real culprits.

ALLEN TOOLEY

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