The greater travesty than the insulting $2K fine for killing someone is the fact that his license will be suspended for not more than six months, AND HE MIGHT STILL BE EMPLOYED AS A PROFESSIONAL DRIVER

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"If you kill someone, you should not be employable doing the thing where you killed someone" seems like low hanging fruit.

@bikepedantic I agree but I think it’s also maddening that the state of Maryland will likely not change anything. I’d be okay not impoverishing this guy if the DOT was on the hook to compensate families and fix the roads.

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@acdha i accept that barring him from CDL driving could impoverish this guy, because not everyone (including this guy) has the skillset to operate a big commercial vehicle, and at some point, that maybe becomes part of the cost of killing fewer people

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@bikepedantic oh, I’m on board for yanking a CDL. I just meant a larger fine he probably couldn’t pay – let the state of Maryland send her children to college, not trying to get it out of one guy in a fatally flawed transportation design.

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