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MAN IS SENTENCED FOR
DRIVING DRUNK --
DECADES AFTER CAUSING
LEFT A YOUNG CHILD
(M)
FIRST CRASH IS IN HER
30'S -- LIVING WITH BRAIN
DAMAGE -- AND CONFINED
TO A WHEELCHAIR...
CASE OF THE MAN WHO
PUT HER THERE IS PROOF
THAT RHODE ISLAND
NEEDS TO STRENGTHEN
DRIVERS.
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER NNEKA NWOSU
JOINS US LIVE NOW WITH
DEVELOPMENTS.
(NN)
SENTENCE, THE JUDGE
CONSIDERED THE FACT
THAT MICHAEL FARIA HAS
PASSED RANDOM
HIS RECENT D-U-I ARREST
AND HE'S DONE
SERVICE.
BUT THE JUDGE ALSO
CONSIDERED FARIA'S
RESULTED IN A TOUGHER
SENTENCE
"I apologize to everyone
involved."
TRACK 1:
MICHAEL FARIA TELLS THE
THREE MONTHS AFTER DRIVING
DRUNK AND CRASHING INTO A
BUT IT TOOK HIM MORE THAN 29
ANOTHER ACCIDENT.
THAT ONE CAUSED PERMANENT
BRAIN INJURY TO THEN 9-
NOW A GROWN WOMAN,
COFFEY HAS BEEN IN A
WHEELCHAIR EVER SINCE.
SOT: ELIZABETH COFFEY
BEHAN, SISTER OF VICTIM
but hopefully, as my father
said, he'll
won't
be a risk to anyone else."
TRACK 2:
DRIVING TO ENDANGER.
NEARLY THREE DECADES
LATER, HE IS AT IT AGAIN.
CHARGED WITH DUI.
ASKED THAT HIS LICENSE BE
SUSPENDED FOR JUST A FEW
PROSECUTORS ASKED FOR
...BUT THE JUDGE WENT EVEN
FURTHER, SUSPENDING HIS
LICENSE FOR 14 MONTHS.
to
law makers that we need much
more
the
SOT: NEILL COFFEY
should
lose your license for year,
you hit somebody or didn't hit
somebody. And if you get a
second
good."
continually, daily, getting
hurt."
IN ADDITION THE 14 MONTH
FARIA WILL ALSO PAY
IS ON 30 DAYS HOME
CONFINEMENT.
NEW AT SIX, WE SPEAK
WHO OWNS THE
PROPERTY WHERE FARIA'S
MOST RECENT DRUNK
DRIVING CRASH
(S)
MAN WANTED FOR A