There was emotional testimony at the Capitol on Thursday, for a pair of bills getting a hearing before a state Assembly committee.
Jeff Kennedy’s son John was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Green Bay four years ago. “Because he left our son to die in the street, they couldn’t prove he was drunk at the time,” Kennedy told the Assembly Judiciary Committee. “His conscious decision to leave the scene of the accident actually paid off for him. He wouldn’t serve time for killing our son while under the influence, because he refused to stop and render aid to my son.”
Kennedy and his wife Colleen testified in support of a bill from state Representative Andre Jacque (R-DePere) requiring drivers to stop. Jaque said too many don’t. “They don’t turn themselves in,” Jacque said. “They continue to avoid that responsibility.”
Daniel Peterson of Racine is frustrated — his son Jim and another man were killed by a repeat drunk driver last Fathers Day.
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