Delta Airlines Pilot Convicted of Gross Vehicular Manslaughter
Brent Nathan Geren
A Delta Airlines pilot who crashed his Porsche near San Diego while drunk on May 1st of last year, killing his two passengers and seriously injuring two others, was sentenced to four years in prison.
39 year-old Brent Nathan Geren pleaded guilty of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter and one count of driving under the influence resulting in injury:
‘Deputy District Attorney Tracy Prior said earlier that Geren had been drinking at a restaurant/bar in Cardiff [near San Diego] before getting behind the wheel of his Porsche 911 Targa, with his 42-year-old girlfriend in the rear and his 63-year-old uncle in the passenger seat.
Prior said Geren drove 77 mph on winding Manchester Avenue going east, crossed a center divider in a 40 mph zone and struck the pickup on the driver’s side. The Porsche burst into flames.
The defendant’s girlfriend was ejected and died instantly and his uncle burned to death in the car, while Geren suffered burns over 20 percent of his body and was pulled to safety by witnesses, Prior said.’
Geren will not report to prison until July as he has surgery planned.
Wow. 4 years?? I seriously don’t get it…
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Everyone is so quick to point a finger like they never made a mad decision. They are above fortunate it didnt end in absolute tragedy like it did it Mr. Geren’s case. May these four years go by quickly, and the lives of all those effected begin to be rebuilt. Before you judge a story that you probably know nothing about (and lucky for myself, I am familiar with Brent), think about the hardest thing you ever begged mercifully for; and mutilply to the highest extent possible, and you can probably only begin to feel a fragment of what Geren expierences. Every single one of us are sinners, and will live a in a world of a suffering. Who are we to say who is deserving of forgiveness. Not you, not I.
You bring up very valid points and you’re right, we report a story like this and we are not intimate with all the facts. We report on what we are given. As you can see from this site, our editors are free (as I did here) to inject their opinion at the end.
I will say that because of Mr. Geren’s actions: he took the lives of two other people (and seriously hurt 2 others) and it could have been avoided. We all know that driving under the influence is a serious offense and speeding can also have a deadly result if taken to the extreme.
He did both here. And again, maybe there is something key to this case that I am not aware of.
If there is not, then I will stand by my statement that he got a slap on the wrist.
I appreciate your comment.
Lee