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Stiffer Hit-And-Run Penalties Needed?
What Can Be Done To Keep Drivers From Leaving?
Updated: Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012, 11:23 AM EST
Published : Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012, 11:20 AM EST
PHILADELPHIA - A quick look at possible jail times connected with a deadly crash could explain why some people decide to leave the scene.
If you hit someone with a car and the person dies, your sentence is not to exceed five years.
Now, if you flee the scene, there is an automatic extra year tacked onto the sentence.
But if you are proven to be drunk when you hit and kill someone, there is a mandatory three-year sentence.
The question is being raised in the aftermath of that deadly hit and run in Levittown over the weekend.
Friends of the man accused of driving the car, 23-year-old Charles Horrocks, say he was drinking before getting behind the wheel.
The crash early Sunday killed 36-year-old Eric Beck, who was walking home following a birthday party.
Horrocks faces hit-and run-and vehicular homicide charges. He's not charged with DUI because his arrest came too long after the crash to prove those charges.
So, should the laws be changed?
Former federal prosecutor Fred Tecce joined "Good Day" on Wednesday morning to talk more about this.