Widow: Toughen NJ's 'Leaving the Scene' Law for Boat Accidents
Current penalty just a $25 fine; DiGilio verdict reignites call to toughen New Jersey's 'leaving the scene' law
"I think it's sort of reopened the whole grieving process again," said Bonnie Post, describing the feeling of Anthony DiGilio being found not guilty of vehicular homicide in the boating accident that killed her husband, Robert. "It minimized the death of my husband," said Post, a pediatric nurse from Essex Fells and a summer resident of Point Pleasant Borough. The verdict in the DiGilio case, which stemmed from an Aug. 3, 2008 accident in the Metedeconk River in Brick, came more than four years later on April 22. A week after the verdict, Bonnie Post is reeling from what she sees not only as an injustice to her family, but a wider hole in New Jersey's boating laws. DiGilio, then 29, did not stop after hitting the 17-foot Boston Whaler …
Dame Bridgid
6:23 pm on Saturday, May 11, 2013
I understand there is no state law to cover having him leaving the scene of the accident. However; what about the fact his boat killed a man while he captained it? Even unintentional, that IS manslaughter. According to the law of the sea...Didn't he also fail to offer assistance? He knew he had struck another vessel. He was sure enough of that to contact an attorney to represent him Even during … more ›