A while back I was working as an overnight truck driver in the midwest. One night I was nodding off on the way back to the yard and fell asleep with the cruise control on. I woke up to a big thump and didn't think to stop and check it out. I went home and after a couple days the buzz around the small town was someone hit and ran someone on a motorcycle. I didn't put 2 and 2 together until months afterward and now its been over a year.
It doesn't haunt me or anything but I feel like maybe I should turn myself in and hopefully explain that I just didn't put the incidents together and get a smaller sentence.
Should I turn myself in or consider this a blessing?
>>17377269
Consider it a blessing?
Were there any scratch marks on the vehicle?
>>17377269
Key excerpts from the DA's case against OP before he was sentenced to 10 years.
So you willingly were driving tired? Despite safety laws in this country that protect you, the driver, I'd you're tired? That's negligence. And you didnt even stop to see what you hit?! Did you just not care if it was a living thing?
Yeah, if you want a clean conscience, turn yourself in. But be prepared for felony charges and time.
>>17377276
No, Lots of cows and deer in the road so we had these reenforced solid steel bumpers. I'm sure there was damage underneath but nothing out of the ordinary on the front.
>>17377280
See, at this point it wouldn't be all that bad. I ended up getting most of that companies assets when they closed the door because of the declining oil prices. Since then I've built assets that let me live working a low stress nothing job and keep living upper middle class. So after I get out and pay restitution I can still live pretty comfortably.
>>17377269
OP, your story isn't true. It's fiction, and it's lazy.
Here's what I don't understand: Why aim so low?
People telling the truth are stuck with whatever stories they have managed to accumulate in their brief time on earth, but people making shit up can say anything. Any fucking thing, any moral dilemma you can imagine, and the best you could come up with was, "hey, maybe I killed someone without knowing it. I don't feel any remorse. Uh, any reason I shouldn't tell the police?"
I'm not mad, anon. I'm just disappointed...