Serial drunken driver gets 13 years in death of Hopkins student
This just in from The Sun's Tricia Bishop:
A half-dozen witnesses told police that the driver of Meighan's white truck took a terrifying trip through the city before striking Frankl about 3:20 p.m. on Oct. 16, 2009. The truck was spotted running red lights, tailgating other drivers and going the wrong way on a one-way street. At one point, the driver, identified by police as Meighan, got out to urinate alongside the vehicle while parked on Eastern Avenue.Serial drunken driver Thomas Lee Meighan Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in prison for the 2009 fatal hit-and-run of a 20-year-old Johns Hopkins student. He was also given an additional nine-year suspended sentence in connection with a similar hit-and-run that same year, in which five people were injured.
Several of those victims testified at the hearing Wednesday afternoon, along with the friends and family of Miriam Frankl, who was killed Oct. 16 after Meighan slammed his white Ford truck into her as she crossed St. Paul Street in Charles Village.
"The tragedy here … is the Miriam that will never be," said Julia Pilcer, one of Frankl's sorority sisters who looked up to the young scientist, recalled as kind, intelligent and driven.
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What's a life worth? Apparently the answer would be thirteen years. Actually I'm surprised this loser got that much. Thankfully the victim's family remained involved. Losing a loved one in this manner is horrifying and I wonder if thirteen years even remotely equates with a lifetime of loss.
Posted by: ruth | February 2, 2011 7:40 PM