The article on November 22 about the Haligus Road double-fatal accident has generated 20 comments. Not quite a record - there was an older one that generated more. You can read the article and the comments by clicking on "November" to the right and then scrolling down to "Driver Out of Hospital for 3 Weeks".
But some of us are beginning to wonder just exactly why tickets have not been issued to young Miss Gryz. What could possibly be the reason that the McHenry County Sheriff's Department has delayed in issuing at least initial tickets? Or has it issued them but just not released the information to the press. Is this accident still "pending investigation"?
The longer they wait, the bigger deal it becomes. While it might have seemed cruel and unusual punishment for a deputy to issue a ticket to a hospitalized driver for Careless Driving or Failing to Drive on the Paved Portion of the Roadway or whatever the obvious charge would be, the ticket(s) should have been issued.
And, if tickets weren't issued immediately, then they should have been issued as soon as it was obvious that the driver would survive. She went home after a week in the hospital, and that didn't even make the daily newspaper. Now another week has passed.
Perhaps a deputy will post here what the thinking at the Sheriff's Department is about this delay. And when tickets will be issued.
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Please explain the portion about how "the longer they wait the bigger deal it becomes".
Because Gus will drag this out until he can add insult to mental anguish and agony. The feelings and mental stability of a teenage girl trying to come to grips with reality as a whole right now must be shattered before he'll feel the law was upheld.
The two have nothing to do with one another. She'll get to deal with her feelings; the law will deal with the responsibility for the cause of the accident.
Count off the number of accidents in which a driver was ticketed at or shortly after an accident. Drugs and alcohol are not suspected, so the tickets should be issued and the legal action should continue and be done with.
There is some reason that the Sheriff's Dept. must be holding off on tickets. The public is entitled to know if they are still investigating the accident or if they have decided not to issue tickets. Which way is it?
Vehicular manslaughter is not a ticket Gus, and it will take some time for an official investigation before the district attornies office will issue a warrent in the case.
Maybe, just maybe, you don't know as much about law enforcement and the legal community as you would like to think.
It seems everyone can attack Gus, but none can offer a solid and alternative explanation here, even the polite vehicular manslaughter ("VM") comment above errors: the moving violation (failure to maintain, left of center, blowing through a red light, etc.) is completely different than the additional charge of VM. The moving violation ticket could have been issued on the spot if they so chose, or within a day - at most, and, as you write the MV charges are more complicated and could take more time than the moving violation citation. That said, their failure to issue the simple moving violation ticket screams only two choices here: Gross Incompetence, or a Cover-up. There are no alternate choices. It does not take months to determine what happened initially here.
I was informed by the McHenry County Sheriff's Department that it does not have a Press Officer. Instead, each supervisor issues his/her own statements. What an interesting way to do business...
On Monday evening I attempted to email both Sgt. Karen Groves and Sgt. Carolyn Hubbard at what I assumed might be their email addresses at the Department. Both emails were undeliverable, so I faxed my request to them for information. That was Monday night.
Of course, each could be on days-off. My questions were 1) when will final toxicology results be available, and 2) when will information about tickets-issued be available.
Well, I'll just be polite and wait another day or two, and then I may just have to nudge them by filing the all-too-familiar FOIA requests.
Perhaps we may get lucky and the bounty will be for real next time.
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