Anyone else think the trucking company bought off the prosecuting
attorney Curtis Hill?. He and the trucker should both be lynched.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19587396/

Distracted trucker not charged in deadly crash
Driver trying to recharge cell phone rammed into stopped traffic, killing 8

Updated: 2 hours, 33 minutes ago

ELKHART, Ind. - A truck driver who was trying to recharge his cell phone
when he rammed into stopped traffic on the Indiana Toll Road, killing
eight people, will not face criminal charges, a prosecutor announced
Tuesday.

Leonardo Cooksey, 32, may have been negligent in his actions on April
26, but he was not criminally responsible, Elkhart County Prosecutor
Curtis T. Hill Jr. said.

"Inadvertence alone, while an indication of negligent conduct, does not
rise to the level of criminal liability, notwithstanding a catastrophic
result," Hill said.

Cooksey, of Mount Prospect, Ill., was traveling 62 mph in a 65 mph zone
at the time of the crash, Hill said. He was not under the influence of
alcohol or drugs and had been on the road for less than three hours when
the accident occurred.

A state police investigation showed no evidence that Cooksey attempted
to brake before he struck vehicles that had stopped because of a
separate crash several hours earlier near a construction site.

Two vehicles were crushed beyond recognition - a pickup truck carrying
six people, five of whom died, and a Jeep Cherokee in which two were
killed. The driver of another pickup truck that was knocked off the road
also died.

"How can you kill eight people and nothing happen?" said Michele Repp,
whose husband, Mark Repp, was killed. "I think he should be held
responsible."

A message seeking comment was left Tuesday for Cooksey at his home. A
message also was left for a spokesman at New England Motor Freight of
Elizabeth, N.J., where the truck was registered.