Same here tow driver , lost his life to a heroin addict . 4 years in jail , he ended up OD'ing after taking 2 different lives , Life goes on for others but the spouse of the dead are to suffer n deal with it , seems forever
Mine ended up in the nursing home still alive but changed forever. I cry everytime going home without him. Miss the man he was and could have been. The plans we had and the future we could have had.Just seems so unfair sometimes. But I do thank God everyday he's still alive and still smiles that sweet smile when he sees me.
Oh sweetheart, this is a tragedy beyond word😅s. I am sorry to hear that such a wonderful, loving, selfless husband, friend & father lost his life this way. I wish you the best as you move forward and try to heal with your children. He sounds like he was an incredible man.....
Drunk and distracted driving need to both be punished in the same way. For adults twenty years minimum behind bears with no parole or early release. Permanently banned from driving, and a million dollar fine minimum. If the offender is a minor then triple the amount. So it is sixty years minimum for anyone between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. Also a permanent ban on driving. The same goes for buzzed driving ( on drugs).
People who don’t understand that cars are a deadly weapon are the problem. I was taught that at a young age by my father. Kills me to see people willingly driving recklessly and distracted
Unless ejected and survived, I'm not sure there is anything to convict. People, please slow down, pay attention, move over, and get off your dang phones!
This was a tragic loss of life. I was curious so I will post: "Regina McCracken pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other criminal charges in May 2021 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison."
I am weeping right now. All those pics n vids of the family are so wonderful but the one that really made my heart smile was seeing little Aspen 'help' her dad carry the large board! 1:07 Loved seeing her wee feet behind the board! She is so cute and she n her dad make an adorable team. I can see and feel the love - and loss - of this family. He comes across as a beautiful human being. Desperately sad. Wish I could make it all better for you all..
That's so unfair. 10 years is not enough, especially because that man has a family and kids he was supposed to raise. What does she have to lose? She probably didn't have any kids either.
Bless you and your lose. I wish the laws were better on this situation. I drive 15 miles to and 15 miles back and fourth everyday to work and someone in front of me is all over the road. I know they are on there phone. This is worse everyday and people get buy with it. I wish there was a way to change it. GOD BLESS.
two years to the day after the crash that led to the death of Randall Siddens, McCracken was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges.
Majority are preventable. Driving to fast on wet or icy road. Preventable. Driving drunk. Preventable. Hitting someone while on Facetime. Preventable. Hitting cross traffic because you ran red light. Preventable. Driving on bald tires or low tire pressure leading to a blowout and hitting other cars. Excessive Speed. Preventable.
@@LaSouthernGemini law enforcement did just fine for decades without looking at laptops. You're the one with the stupid ideas. Dispatch is capable of sending information until the officer is pulled over. Im an emergency responder with 35 years experience. Probably more than you. Officers should not be writing tickets for distracted driving when they are the worst of all at doing so
Idiots behind the wheel. I hope they are paying and sitting in jail. I hope at the very least the kids never have to worry about money. Unfortunately in Missouri law suits don’t net much.
I will never understand why people use their devices or do anything besides putting 100% focus on their driving. I'm 23. When I started driving at 16, just like smoking and drinking, it never crossed my mind to try it. I could NEVER do what these idiots do. Just because you see everyone else doing it doesn't make it right, nor make you invincible. Whatever it is, it can wait. If it's an emergency, pull the hell over!! There are so many options, and people choose the selfish route. The idea of not focusing on the road and doing something else scares the hell out of me. I had a foster mom who would always be on her phone, and I would yell at her to put it away. I told her she is risking all our lives as well as those around us. She wouldn't get it. She got into an accident while I was at school. It was a t bone accident. No fucking doubt it was her distracted driving. She has been in prior accidents, and I bet all my savings most or all of them had to do with her distracted driving. Anyone who does this boils my blood. I never drive when I don't feel 100%. And when I do drive, I am focused on only that.
100% agree with you. It's unbelievable that people value being on their phone 24/7, speeding to make up for their own failure of being on time, and their sad addictions over theirs and strangers' lives. Punishments for distracted and drunk driving should be much worse than they are now.
"McCracken was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges." nothing, she'll be out in 6 years with good behaviour, cry about how much she was also a victim and do it again
My father, one of my uncles, and my best friend were each killed by distracted drivers in separate crashes (they weren't "accidents"). The perpetrators not only killed these men, but they also destroyed spouses, children, families. Operating behavior was bad enough 30 years ago -- now the dangers are ubiquitous, the vast majority of aimers (they're not drivers) practice horrible habits on the roads. They don't signal, or maintain their lanes, or properly merge, or keep safe distances, or maintain velocity, or keep their eyes on the road. If you ask the average aimer why he/she failed to signal, the excuse is something like, "Well, there's nobody there." The fools don't understand why signaling intentions is the law: it's as if giving signals and obeying any traffic laws is some sort of self-gratification rather than the correct, legal way to operate a vehicle. America needs to wake up! It's time to apply fines and penalties for distracted driving that are equal to or greater than those sanction for perps caught DUI/DWI.
I just can't wait for phone companies to ensure than when the phone is in motion in a car that the only way you can use it is through CarPlay or Android Auto so it never has to come out of your pocket/purse & everything is verbal.
Drivers should be jailed when they kill someone because they are distracted driving. How is this different than drunk driving? It makes me so angry how they get away with it!!!!
When are we going to be smart enough to understand that's our children we are putting behind the wheel when we get their first car or they get their learner's permit and so on and so forth make it a law they cannot start driving unless their car is Bluetooth enabled that it could handle the incoming messages and everything and they don't have to take their eyes off the road for a split second because the same way it takes a split second to get pregnant it takes a split second to take away that life so please you guys make all these laws and all these rules make that an official law you're not able to drive at all until your car is Bluetooth enabled and that's the only way that you get to drive because if you leave it on the phone and you take your eyes off the road you're gone I don't care how many commercials you have they're not going to listen until it becomes a law how many more kids are we going to bury how many more families are going to cry we have smartphones so make smart decisions don't expect your child to be the one to do the smart decision they have to have some kind of Bluetooth device in their vehicle that listens to the messages and reads it out my phone every time a message comes in it tells me who's it from and what it says if it's an emergency they can pull over if not make it a rule you cannot get a cell phone until your first four years of driving by yourself and not getting into an accident you have to come home to be able to message anyone and watch how fast the cemeteries start being less filled with our children passed a message forward and God we trust one land and one nation under God God gave us our children let's not send them back in a rush delivery because of a stupid driving accident
The amount of uselessness, selfishness and arrogance it takes to text period yet alone while driving is ridiculous. Texting is a toy, made for kids, it needs to be illegal to even have it in America, its by far useless....
Your comment is confusing. Who's the 'he' you speak of coz the 'he' in this video is the innocent victim, Randall Siddens. As far as I know it was a 'she' who killed him. I'm not even gonna mention her name. You'll find it if u want to.
Randall Siddens was the innocent victim of distracted driving. He was doing his job as part of a road crew when a woman distracted by her phone plowed into him, and killed him. Yet, you blame him for his death? I am confused as to how you watched the video and determined that he was at fault?
@gaittr: What is it with you conservatives?? Everywhere you go, your #1 priority in life is political grandstanding. This is NOT a political video. Would you PLEASE give it a rest??!!
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My husband was killed 43 years ago by a distracted driver. My boys were 5 & 8. It lasts a lifetime..the pain.
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RIP Im So Sorry For Your Loss 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
Same here tow driver , lost his life to a heroin addict . 4 years in jail , he ended up OD'ing after taking 2 different lives , Life goes on for others but the spouse of the dead are to suffer n deal with it , seems forever
Mine ended up in the nursing home still alive but changed forever. I cry everytime going home without him. Miss the man he was and could have been. The plans we had and the future we could have had.Just seems so unfair sometimes. But I do thank God everyday he's still alive and still smiles that sweet smile when he sees me.
I lost a dear friend 41 years ago May 29, 1983. He is with me always...
It’s so gut-wrenching to see pictures of his young children… they were robbed of knowing their father.
I burst out crying when I saw this video I wasn't expecting that. May he rest in peace with the angels bless his heart🙏
Oh sweetheart, this is a tragedy beyond word😅s. I am sorry to hear that such a wonderful, loving, selfless husband, friend & father lost his life this way. I wish you the best as you move forward and try to heal with your children. He sounds like he was an incredible man.....
Thank you for sharing your story.. I'm so sorry for his widow. I hope she sees his spirit in the faces of those precious babies
Drunk and distracted driving need to both be punished in the same way. For adults twenty years minimum behind bears with no parole or early release. Permanently banned from driving, and a million dollar fine minimum. If the offender is a minor then triple the amount. So it is sixty years minimum for anyone between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. Also a permanent ban on driving. The same goes for buzzed driving ( on drugs).
Agree. I had a friend hit by drunk driver and he has brain damage he had to learn to do everything all over again he'll never be the same.
100% THIS!
The hurt in the widows eyes is unbearable.
I see the pain in your eyes
I wish I could hug you...
People who don’t understand that cars are a deadly weapon are the problem. I was taught that at a young age by my father. Kills me to see people willingly driving recklessly and distracted
No reason for this , driver needs to be charged , and lose that license
Forever.
And no reason for cops to be looking at their laptop while they're driving. So hypocritical and wrong
@@budweiser3399 what? I think you meant to respond to someone else because your comment doesn't match my comment at all
@@adamr8628 You are correct . My apology
Unless ejected and survived, I'm not sure there is anything to convict.
People, please slow down, pay attention, move over, and get off your dang phones!
This was a tragic loss of life. I was curious so I will post: "Regina McCracken pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other criminal charges in May 2021 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison."
I am weeping right now. All those pics n vids of the family are so wonderful but the one that really made my heart smile was seeing little Aspen 'help' her dad carry the large board! 1:07
Loved seeing her wee feet behind the board! She is so cute and she n her dad make an adorable team. I can see and feel the love - and loss - of this family. He comes across as a beautiful human being. Desperately sad. Wish I could make it all better for you all..
so sad thanks for sharing might help someone. He had a beautiful smile.
The driver survived, and was given 10......just 10... years. She was uninsured, and had a suspended license. Face timing while driving.
That's so unfair. 10 years is not enough, especially because that man has a family and kids he was supposed to raise. What does she have to lose? She probably didn't have any kids either.
@@b4ssfunk3d 10 years is an insult to the widow, IMO.
Ten years for a young man's life is absolutely ridiculous! 😢
This fallen world doesn't even have value for a life anymore. 😪💔
That's insane.
The jail sentences need to be tripled.
There is no justice for this family.
Is my heartbreaks for them.
Voluntary Manslaughter. Should have gotten the Death Penalty. Would not bring back the father, husband, but put the driver into a life of hell.
i am so sorry, sending love to you and your family.
Watching that young get killed is gut punch. My prayers for his widow and children.
I'm so sorry for your loss. May you and your children find peace ❤
Much prayers go out to you and your kids so sorry for your loss🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I hereby pledge, in Randall’s memory, that from here on out I will turn my phone off when driving.
What happened to the driver? It's ridiculous how many of these stories have been posted for YEARS and STILL these stories continue.
Bless you and your lose. I wish the laws were better on this situation. I drive 15 miles to and 15 miles back and fourth everyday to work and someone in front of me is all over the road. I know they are on there phone. This is worse everyday and people get buy with it. I wish there was a way to change it. GOD BLESS.
RIP Randall Siddens 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
So sorry about losing your husband and father. Our prayers go out to you.
Oh man awful and he had no idea charge as vehicular manslaughter at least!
two years to the day after the crash that led to the death of Randall Siddens, McCracken was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges.
Everyone should be required to watch this video before they are issued a driver's license
:( this makes me ANGRY
Very.
i agree with the officer accidents are preventable, but not all of them,
Majority are preventable. Driving to fast on wet or icy road. Preventable. Driving drunk. Preventable. Hitting someone while on Facetime. Preventable. Hitting cross traffic because you ran red light. Preventable. Driving on bald tires or low tire pressure leading to a blowout and hitting other cars. Excessive Speed. Preventable.
RIP To All The Dead Mentioned 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ 4:12
Cops need to stop looking at their laptop while driving. Set the example please. Have them disabled while moving.
Apparently you have not been nor are a LEO. As a former LEO, that is a stupid idea.
@@LaSouthernGemini law enforcement did just fine for decades without looking at laptops. You're the one with the stupid ideas. Dispatch is capable of sending information until the officer is pulled over. Im an emergency responder with 35 years experience. Probably more than you. Officers should not be writing tickets for distracted driving when they are the worst of all at doing so
That's so sad 😭
They give anyone a driver license
So preventable.
Idiots behind the wheel. I hope they are paying and sitting in jail. I hope at the very least the kids never have to worry about money. Unfortunately in Missouri law suits don’t net much.
I will never understand why people use their devices or do anything besides putting 100% focus on their driving. I'm 23. When I started driving at 16, just like smoking and drinking, it never crossed my mind to try it. I could NEVER do what these idiots do. Just because you see everyone else doing it doesn't make it right, nor make you invincible. Whatever it is, it can wait. If it's an emergency, pull the hell over!! There are so many options, and people choose the selfish route. The idea of not focusing on the road and doing something else scares the hell out of me. I had a foster mom who would always be on her phone, and I would yell at her to put it away. I told her she is risking all our lives as well as those around us. She wouldn't get it. She got into an accident while I was at school. It was a t bone accident. No fucking doubt it was her distracted driving. She has been in prior accidents, and I bet all my savings most or all of them had to do with her distracted driving. Anyone who does this boils my blood. I never drive when I don't feel 100%. And when I do drive, I am focused on only that.
100% agree with you. It's unbelievable that people value being on their phone 24/7, speeding to make up for their own failure of being on time, and their sad addictions over theirs and strangers' lives. Punishments for distracted and drunk driving should be much worse than they are now.
sad story r.n.p. randell
Such a terrible waste--and for what?? What makes everything much more important than focusing on the task right in front of you in real time??
What happened to the person in the car
I was wondering the same thing what happened to that loser driver. They might have died the way that car burst into flames.
"McCracken was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges." nothing, she'll be out in 6 years with good behaviour, cry about how much she was also a victim and do it again
My father, one of my uncles, and my best friend were each killed by distracted drivers in separate crashes (they weren't "accidents"). The perpetrators not only killed these men, but they also destroyed spouses, children, families.
Operating behavior was bad enough 30 years ago -- now the dangers are ubiquitous, the vast majority of aimers (they're not drivers) practice horrible habits on the roads. They don't signal, or maintain their lanes, or properly merge, or keep safe distances, or maintain velocity, or keep their eyes on the road. If you ask the average aimer why he/she failed to signal, the excuse is something like, "Well, there's nobody there." The fools don't understand why signaling intentions is the law: it's as if giving signals and obeying any traffic laws is some sort of self-gratification rather than the correct, legal way to operate a vehicle.
America needs to wake up! It's time to apply fines and penalties for distracted driving that are equal to or greater than those sanction for perps caught DUI/DWI.
I watched a car driving itself yesterday, the driver was paying no attention at all.
That poor sweet little baby losing her father. Her hero. A family broken. So sad. Best to the family.
I just can't wait for phone companies to ensure than when the phone is in motion in a car that the only way you can use it is through CarPlay or Android Auto so it never has to come out of your pocket/purse & everything is verbal.
Did the driver burn up ?
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Was he the guy driving or the guy working on the street?
He was cleaning and got hit by a female texting driver. Sickening because I have a buddy his age who is married with two daughters.
Drivers should be jailed when they kill someone because they are distracted driving. How is this different than drunk driving? It makes me so angry how they get away with it!!!!
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When are we going to be smart enough to understand that's our children we are putting behind the wheel when we get their first car or they get their learner's permit and so on and so forth make it a law they cannot start driving unless their car is Bluetooth enabled that it could handle the incoming messages and everything and they don't have to take their eyes off the road for a split second because the same way it takes a split second to get pregnant it takes a split second to take away that life so please you guys make all these laws and all these rules make that an official law you're not able to drive at all until your car is Bluetooth enabled and that's the only way that you get to drive because if you leave it on the phone and you take your eyes off the road you're gone I don't care how many commercials you have they're not going to listen until it becomes a law how many more kids are we going to bury how many more families are going to cry we have smartphones so make smart decisions don't expect your child to be the one to do the smart decision they have to have some kind of Bluetooth device in their vehicle that listens to the messages and reads it out my phone every time a message comes in it tells me who's it from and what it says if it's an emergency they can pull over if not make it a rule you cannot get a cell phone until your first four years of driving by yourself and not getting into an accident you have to come home to be able to message anyone and watch how fast the cemeteries start being less filled with our children passed a message forward and God we trust one land and one nation under God God gave us our children let's not send them back in a rush delivery because of a stupid driving accident
This is what you get when you don't make smart decisions
Over complete stupidity...I tell everyone I know not to text and drive it's not worth it it only takes a second...
Awful and sickening
I dont even know this guy and am choked
The amount of uselessness, selfishness and arrogance it takes to text period yet alone while driving is ridiculous. Texting is a toy, made for kids, it needs to be illegal to even have it in America, its by far useless....
Driver should get life without. Randall is without life.
Those 2 were NOTT 'Looking Left' when THEY came out on the Roadway!!!!!!!
He fkd up, and I refuse to feel bad for him. He chose to do what he did. I just hope it was worth it. 😡
Your comment is confusing. Who's the 'he' you speak of coz the 'he' in this video is the innocent victim, Randall Siddens. As far as I know it was a 'she' who killed him. I'm not even gonna mention her name. You'll find it if u want to.
Randall Siddens was the innocent victim of distracted driving. He was doing his job as part of a road crew when a woman distracted by her phone plowed into him, and killed him. Yet, you blame him for his death? I am confused as to how you watched the video and determined that he was at fault?
I want to know how the perpetrator of this feels today? I'm sure that liberals have relieved or of her responsibility
@gaittr: What is it with you conservatives?? Everywhere you go, your #1 priority in life is political grandstanding. This is NOT a political video. Would you PLEASE give it a rest??!!
Let's keep legalizing more drugs like Marijuana, see what happens. You will get thousands of these stories
@3dentertainment301: I didn't hear anything in this video about drug use. This tragedy happened because of distracted driving.