The penalties for driving drunk should be much stiffer and New York personal injury lawyers should be allowed to go after the perpetrators to the max.
The New York Daily News reported today that the airport shuttle driver critically injured in a fiery crash with a wrong-way drunken driver this month died Thursday.
John Rey 64, of Greenlawn, L.I., died of multiple organ failure after weeks of “unthinkable pain” following the horrific July 5 accident on the Long Island Expressway in Queens, his daughter said.
The intoxicated driver should be receive 10 years for every day of pain this man was in before he died.
His daughter said he was a “Sweet, caring, innocent, loving man who has suffered unthinkable pain and punishment for another man’s crime.”
A spokeswoman for the Queens district attorney said prosecutors will ask a grand jury to upgrade charges against Dave Richards, 30 – whose blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when he slammed his Mercedes head-on into Rey’s van.
Richards is currently charged with vehicular assault, a class D felony.