Porn-Watching Trucker Guilty of Vehicular Homicide

The Batavia (NY) Daily News Online reports that the Ohio trucker who was streaming porn in to the cab of his truck when he slammed into the disabled car of Julie Stratton who had hit a deer, plead guilty to manslaughter.

Thomas Wallace, 45, of Brook Park, Ohio faces a 15 year prison term.  In addition to the porn, Wallace was in violation of the ICC regulations having slept only 4 hours of the preceding 27.   The accident happened Decdember 12, 2009 and it capped a year of reports about distracted driving usually texting.

It makes me crazy just thinking about driving on as little sleep as Mr. Wallace was operating on.