Bill in state Senate would allow for harsher charges
By Mary Schenk
Sunday June 29, 2008
If legislation pending in the Illinois Senate had been enacted by now, an Ogden man who fell asleep while driving and hit and killed two motorcyclists might be charged with a crime instead of a traffic offense.
Two years ago, after Matt Wilhelm died of injuries he got when he was knocked off his bicycle in Urbana by a distracted driver, Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz said there was no criminal charge that fit what the driver did.
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