Thursday, October 8, 2009

Sleeping Sheriff's Deputy Hits 3 Cyclists

In Cupertino, a Sheriff's Deputy falls asleep at the wheel and hits 3 cyclists, one who was an Olympic hopeful 31-year-old Kristy Gough of Oakland, who was the third-fastest, non-professional women's triathlete in the world, and 30-year-old Matt Peterson of San Fancisco were killed. The third was injured but recovered. The mother of Kristy, Karen Clarkson, requested money and Santa Clara County gives her $1.2 million. Reading this is very depressing, innocent people died from someone not getting enough sleep. And the girl who was very athletic and hoping to be in the Olympics. Just goes to show how precious life can be. I think in order to prevent future incidents like this from happening, the law that allows truck drivers to be allowed to drive a certain amount of hours and are ORDERED to stop and sleep, should apply to police officers. Yes it is a job where an officer needs to be there when requested, but there are others on shift. Unless it is something major and threateneing to thousands of lives, give the officers a break and let them get some hours of sleep.

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