Should Driver Be Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter??

[Ivy]

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This 18 Wheeler Driver, Wilkerson, has been charged several times with wreckless driving and opperating a moter vehicle with a suspended licsence. They knew he was a danger to society...Also, the Company at which he was driving for...should they be sued for hiring and unsafe driver?????????????



LAKE BUTLER, Florida (CNN) -- News of a crash in which seven children perished so upset their grandfather that he had a massive heart attack and died, the children's mother said.

"I lost my daddy tonight," Barbara Mann said Wednesday. "My dad died of a massive heart attack tonight over all this. He lost all seven of his grandkids ... I can't deal with this."

William Scott, who was 62, The Associated Press reported, died at his home. (Watch as news of the deaths proved to be unbearable -- 1:18)

Alvin Wilkerson, 32, of Jacksonville, Florida, has been identified as the driver of the tractor-trailer that plowed into the children's car near Gainesville, Florida, on Wednesday. The impact caused the car to slam into the rear of a school bus that had stopped to let off children.

The car burst into flames, killing all the children inside, Lt. Mike Burroughs of the Florida Highway Patrol said. (Full story)

They have been identified as: Cynthia Nicole Mann and Elizabeth Mann, both 15; Ashley Keen and Johnny Mann, both 13; Miranda Finn, 9; Heaven Mann, 3; and Anthony Lamb, 20 months.

At least five of the children lived in the same household; Ashley and Miranda were cousins.

At the wheel was Cynthia Mann, who had a learner's permit. Under Florida law, it is illegal for a 15-year-old to drive without an adult. But Lt. Bill Leeper of the Florida Highway Patrol said that was irrelevant to the crash.

"There are some questions we're going to need answered ... but those are questions we'll look at later," Leeper said. "Right now everything has to do with the truck."

Trucker had driving citations
Wilkerson has been hospitalized and is medicated, police said.

Initial estimates show Wilkerson's truck was traveling between 50 and 65 mph when it struck the Manns' car, police said.

The tractor-trailer left no skid marks, police told CNN on Thursday. But there were marks on the road indicating Wilkerson veered away after the initial impact.

"Basically he just wasn't paying attention, couldn't slow down in time and just ran into the back of the other vehicle," Leeper said.

Wilkerson was cited in 2000 and 2001 for operating a vehicle in unsafe conditions, and also for driving on a suspended or revoked license in 2000.

[X-Ray]

i finde he should be charged since its his folt

[Ivy]

I think he should be charged aswell........I mean, there was no evidence that he tried to stop, and then the Company that hired him new he was a wreckless driver and they allowed him to drive for them..so I see that the family should be able to sue and that the driver should be charged with the 7 deaths of those kids even though they were driving illegaly...because even though they were driving without a license, it still doesn't mean that something wouldn't have happened if they were driving legally or the bus or something along those lines....