Street racing is fascinating, addictive, unarguably stupid, and selfish. When it goes seriously incorrect it does not just leave a trail of wrecked automobiles, but wrecked lives, also.

Now a 20-year-old man from Tulsa has a lot of time to reflect on that: 30 years, to be precise. That was the sentence handed down to Dodge Charger driver Miguel Romero for causing the death of an innocent lady caught up in a fatal street race in October 2021.

Romero, who was just 18 years old at the time of the accident, was racing an additional automobile at about two A.M. when he flew by means of a red light and crashed into a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by 28-year-old Audreaunna Williams. Williams and her passenger had been each ejected from the Jeep due to the force of the crash, which triggered the Grand Cherokee to burst into flames, killing the driver and leaving her passenger with critical injuries that necessary hospital therapy.

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The Tulsa Police Department initially charged Romero with second-degree murder and DUI causing excellent bodily injury but in a trial this February he was convicted of very first-degree manslaughter rather than murder, although also becoming located guilty of the DUI charge.

No sentence offered to the judge could ever bring Williams back to her loved ones, but he surely didn’t sidestep an chance to send a message to each Romero and any person else who enjoys racing on the street. He handed the Dodge driver 20 years in prison for manslaughter and a additional ten for the DUI conviction, and these sentences will run consecutively, which means Romero was sent down for 30 years.

By the time he gets out, he’ll be middle-aged and automobiles may well effectively be engineered with speed limiters, GPS locators, and alcohol detectors that could avoid this type of tragedy. Sadly for Williams and her loved ones, it will all arrive also late. We all take pleasure in driving rapidly automobiles on the street and obtaining the freedom (inside cause, and for now at least) to deploy that overall performance how we want, but complete-on racing on public roads is straight-up dumb.