NEW DETAILS: I was able to track down the owners of a Lamborghini that was involved in Saturday’s crash. The car came from a luxury rental car company in Dallas, which rented out the Lamborghini to Rashee Rice this weekend. Both the Lamborghini and the corvette that caused the crash are registered to Rice. The company says Rice was the only person who should have been driving the Lamborghini. Authorities accuse the drivers and passengers in those cars of leaving the scene without checking if anyone was okay. @CBSNewsTexas
So from this info he had to be driving both cars.
No. That's not what it says at all.
My post was mainly in humor, but, to explain. The rental agreement said only he could drive the Lambo. I'm guessing his prevailing insurance said only he can drive the Corvette and not some tooled up, drunk friend of his he met at the bowling alley.
Not a crazy assumption to make that in the eyes of the law here if he wasn't driving both cars then he is in trouble anyways for this. If he was driving one he still is.
Either way, he cannot claim not to have been driving at least one of the cars.
sorry....but it is possible that he wasn't driving either vehicle.....we haven't heard anything confirmed yet.....he was letting someone else drive at least one of the cars....why wouldn't it be possible for him to allow someone to drive the other....as of right now him not being a driver is still a possibility and the biggest part of this situation IMO.....you can talk all you want about leaving the scene and what that says about your character....but the only real issue is was he driving one of the vehicles....period....because if he wasn't ...."leaving the scene" really becomes legally a nothing burger....
eta:....if a vehicle that is registered to you is involved in an accident and you aren't supposed to leave because of that .....I get it....but I'm not sure everyone really knows that....I think some would innocently enough assume that if I wasn't driving I don't have to stick around, even if it was my vehicle....that is a "problem to be figured out later" type of thing,....
And leave your Corvette and rental just sitting on the side of a highway? Hard to believe even the biggest idiots would think that’s OK and something to figure out later.
I've been thinking about this more and the reason why I think the NFL should lay the hammer to Rice, whether driving or not, whether legal or not, is that he had no regard for human life. I'm not even talking about the reckless action of what caused the wreck, but leaving the scene without seeing if everyone was alright shows a reckless disregard for human life. Does the NFL want this to be an example of what it wants to represent its product? They need to set an example to other players they will not put up with that kind of action from their players. To me, leaving the scene without caring about the health of those the accident that he was a part of caused, was the worse thing he could have done. If the NFL doesn't come down hard on him, then they are showing the world they don't care to set an example for all their players.
This seems extreme, considering how the NFL has handled much worse situations in the past.
Things need to change in the NFL and NBA........those two leagues IMO are far too loose on stuff like this.
Rice very well could be an example of a harsher punishment matrix moving forward. At some point you gotta star dropping the hammer.
Time will tell.
I agree with the sentiment. But between those 2 leagues it seems the only changes that are being made are the ones that generate more cash for each respective league.
The NFL is way worse on this than the NBA b/c they claim a lot of changes are "Due to player safety" but also won't spend extra money to get grass on EVERY field as well as I guess no matter what, we are getting Christmas games every year moving forward, even it the games are on a Wednesday like this year.
And the also seem to treat certain teams/superstars with different sets of rules (See Patriots/SpyGate/All footage deleted) than the perennial bottom feeding organizations.
And right now, the Chiefs are the ones that will get all the breaks.
Its a business, thru and thru and in America, Money comes 1st 2nd and 3rd.