Valley family of firefighter killed by driver searching for phone spearheading 'Tom's Law'

  • Source: KASW-CW6 & KTVK-3TV (azfamily.com)
  • Published: 08/26/2016 12:00 AM

VIDEO: A Valley family is on a mission to create harsher penalties for distracted driving. They said the driver who hit and killed their loved one in April was reaching for her phone, and only got a ticket. "I'm really angry. It's just a miscarriage of justice," said Jonathan Hall. "I mean, my dad died and it was so senseless." Jonathan said he would give anything to tell his dad, Tom Hall, a retired Phoenix firefighter, about his day. "I just became a fireman, and now, I can't call him after my shift and talk to him," Jonathan said. "Now, I have to go to Greenwood Cemetery and sit at his grave to talk to him." The crash on April 2, on Highway 69 in Prescott Valley, was caught on camera by an ambulance that happened to be there. The sedan in the right lane crashed into Tom, who is on his motorcycle without a helmet. "I see him flying through the air, hitting her windshield, every day of my life," said Catherine Hall, Tom's widow. "In her statement, she said she was reaching down looking for her phone," Jonathan said. "That took my dad's life. She said she didn't even know she hit a motorcycle until she got out of her car and saw it laying (sic) in the road."



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