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[QUOTE="Jasle, post: 512472, member: 26675"] [size=2]>>THIS IS A FORWARD FROM ANOTHER LIST: >> >>From: "Tom Melchild" >>Reply-To [email]fjr1300@micapeak.com[/email] >>To: FJR1300 Mailing List >>Subject: Help needed in Bay Area >>Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:45:32 -0800 >As some of you know, I lost a very good friend last winter. Gary Kunich >was great guy who I worked on the Cal 24 rally with for several years. >Last Jan. 11th, he was riding his K75 to work in Livermore on Vasco >Road. He encountered very thick fog, to the point that the traffic had >stopped due to almost zero visibility. He did exactly what we all are >told to do in a situation like this, he stopped behind a truck on the >right side of the lane, next to the white line. While he was stopped, a >woman, Niki Moore from Clayton, in 3/4 ton Dodge Pickup struck him at >between 60 and 70 mph. The force of the crash drug him, trapped under >the truck for over 70 feet, broke the motorcycle into 3 pieces, and he >died in an inferno when the truck burst into flames. After the crash it >became known that at least two people had called 911 from cell phones >the morning of the crash reporting the outrageous behavior of this >woman in the minutes before impact. She had been passing cars on the >shoulder at over 75 mph. At the scene of the accident, witnesss' said >that while Gary was trapped under her burning truck, she was retrieving >her cell phone and papers. Now after, almost a year, the woman who >caused the death of our friend, and fellow motorcycle rider, is trying >desperately to avoid jail time. They presented a plea agreement that >would avoid ANY jail time in exchange for a guilty plea. The offer was >basically 5 years probation, 60 days in jail, and after one year, the >charges dropped from felony to misdemeanor. The prosecutor would not >accept the plea, so she and her attorney went to a judge in Pleasanton >last Wed. The judge rejected the plea. Now, she and her attorney are >trying again with a different judge in Hayward. Now, if this weren't >enough, here is what her Attorney, Louis Goodman was quoted as saying >in the paper last Thursday: "This is a tragic traffic accident. As >someone who's ridden a motorcycle many, many times, it's a risk all >motorcyclists take," he said. "I'm not saying there's anything the >motorcyclist could have done in a rear-end collision, but there would >probably not have been the same result if he was in a vehicle." >Is this crazy? I guess according to Mr. Goodman we should all be driving >only 3/4 ton pickups so we can be protected from the actions of people like >his client. >What I am asking is for anyone who can, come to the Hayward Hall of Justice >on Friday, Jan. 10th at 9:00AM. This is the time that Judge Kurtz is >scheduled to hear Mr. Goodman try to get him to approve the plea agreement >that another judge and the prosecutor would not. We need as large a showing >as possible. >The address is: Hayward Hall of Justice >24405 Amador Street Hayward, CA 94544 >It is on the corner of W. Winton and Amador, approximately. two blocks east >of I880 on W. Winton. The hearing will be in room 513. >If you can't make it, if you can send a letter to Judge Robert Kurtz at the >same address. Tell him that you as a member of the community would be >outraged if this woman got anything less than jail time for her behavior. >Thanks for your help! >Tom Melchild >George Jercich[/size] [/QUOTE]
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