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| Message not received by some repeat offenders |
| By postcrescent.com |
| Published: 11/10/2014 |
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On a warm night in June 1992, Carol Bukas strapped on her helmet and left her Weston home to pedal around the neighborhood on her bicycle. As the 9-year-old girl turned the corner from Elm Street to Ross Avenue, a motorist with four opened cans of 12-ounce beer on his seat drove up behind her. Bryan Kaseno of Wausau was drunk when he struck and killed the young girl. Later that same year — while out of jail on bond awaiting trial — he was arrested for driving drunk again, his second OWI offense. The night Carol died, Weston Police Officer David Sabel found the young girl in the road next to her crumpled bicycle. Police reports note that as Sabel tried frantically to revive Carol, Bryan Kaseno stepped forward unsteadily, and with heavily slurred speech said: "I did it. I hit her." Read More. |
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I strongly feel that the habitual violator act that applies to driver with multiple incidents of DUI or driving while suspended, needs to be tightened up. Anytime a person is killed in an accident where the driver was found guilty of DUI, their license need to be permanently revoked as well as serious jail time. In the case of just DUI, I feel that after the second offense, their license should be suspended indefinitely. I work in a jail and I see people coming in for DUI and Driving while Suspended all the time. If they tighten the laws up seriously, maybe we can at least reduce the incidents like Carol Bukas. My heart goes out to her family. Had that been my daughter, I would probably has lost my mind.