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Driver in fatal crosswalk crash sentenced in Fort Bend County’s first Lisa Torry Smith Act case
Read full article: Driver in fatal crosswalk crash sentenced in Fort Bend County’s first Lisa Torry Smith Act caseFort Bend County District Attorney Brian M. Middleton says the county’s first-ever case under the Lisa Torry Smith Act has ended with a maximum probation sentence and jail time for the driver involved.
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Drivers who hit someone in a crosswalk in Texas could now face prison time thanks to new law named after Fort Bend County woman
Read full article: Drivers who hit someone in a crosswalk in Texas could now face prison time thanks to new law named after Fort Bend County womanNot many days after Lisa Torry Smith died in 2017, after family members learned it was not a crime in Texas to drive into someone in a crosswalk, they decided the law needed to change.
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State lawmakers pass Lisa Torry Smith Act after Missouri City mom killed in neighborhood crosswalk
Read full article: State lawmakers pass Lisa Torry Smith Act after Missouri City mom killed in neighborhood crosswalkTexas lawmakers have passed the Lisa Torry Smith Act more than three years after the mother of two was hit by a vehicle and later died.
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Lisa Torry Smith Act closer to becoming law; Legislation named after Missouri City woman killed in a crosswalk in 2017
Read full article: Lisa Torry Smith Act closer to becoming law; Legislation named after Missouri City woman killed in a crosswalk in 2017The Texas House of Representatives moved the Lisa Torry Smith Act into its final stages before it will likely become law.
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Texas lawmakers consider bill named after Missouri City woman killed in a crosswalk in 2017
Read full article: Texas lawmakers consider bill named after Missouri City woman killed in a crosswalk in 2017Texas lawmakers considered the Lisa Torry Smith Act on Tuesday, three-and-a-half years after Smith was hit and killed in a crosswalk in Missouri City while walking her son to school on his first day.