There’s been a lot of speculation and rumors surrounding the events leading up to the horrific crash in Pembroke that left a 13 year old girl dead and two other people clinging to life, after this useless sack of shit decided to drown himself in whiskey, beer and cocaine and get behind the wheel of his company vehicle shitfaced at 7am.
Although I do understand the public outrage aimed at the company this cumstain worked for, as it was their company Christmas party he was leaving, as of now I cannot substantiate any of the rumors going around.
Social host laws very well may end up applying here, but in the interim, this is a company which employs approximately 200 other people who did not decide to get more wasted than a college intern at spring break without the common sense to call an Uber or at least sleep it off in the driveway. Let’s not get distracted from where the blame squarely lies here. Gregory Goodsell, his pubestache and wanton disregard for public are solely responsible for this tragic loss of life. Although Goodsell’s father told reporters:
“He’s a good kid, he just screwed up, he knows it. This was a company Christmas party that obviously got out of hand. I assure you my son feels terrible.”
Gregory Goodsell is not a kid. He’s 31 years old. And I, for one, am not buying the narrative that the blame should get passed off to the company that he’s trying to sell. This is not Greg’s first time wrecking a car because he doesn’t know when enough is enough. His driving record includes three prior suspensions. And he’s well-documented his own shitty judgement through social media.
In 2008 he hit a tree being “young and immature”, but vowed he was done with that. But that was determined to be a lie, because in 2009….
A picture of another smashed-up car. Because apparently this kid is too fucking dumb to figure out the proper way to operate a two-ton speeding bullet safely on public roadways, in 2010 he got back online to celebrate a lighter license suspension than he was anticipating.
He shouldn’t have gotten that license back at all. Because as recently as 2018, he was charged with even more reckless driving offenses after being involved in yet another accident that sounds pretty consistent with driving under the influence to me.
In fact, it would seem that his reputation for this sort of shit has preceded him for quite some time now.
This guy shouldn’t have been allowed to drive at all – his license should have been revoked a long time ago. He shouldn’t have been hired by a company called “Hi-Way Safety Systems”, because his entire driving record appears to be the complete polar opposite. But most importantly, at 31 years old with all these experiences already sitting clearly in his rear view, he should have known better. The Registry of Motor vehicles should have taken away his license, but that doesn’t guarantee an unsafe driver will no longer drive, nor did allowing him to keep a license force him to drive in the condition he did. Hi-Way Safety Systems should have checked his driving record and social media and immediately declined him a job, but he clearly had a pattern of driving drunk before his employment with the company. Someone should have taken his keys, called him a ride, or driven him home themselves – but nobody held him at gunpoint and made him get behind the wheel of that car. It’s so natural and expected for us as a society to lash out and try to pin the blame everywhere and anywhere we can – Lord knows so many parts of this story were entirely preventable. But that doesn’t change the outcome, unfortunately. Shifting the blame around doesn’t change the fact that one person and one person only got behind the wheel of that Ford truck, blew a red light at 70mph and shattered the lives of an entire community. At the end of the day, that’s where the accountability ultimately lies. And most critically, because he didn’t, a child is now dead, another one clings to life, and if her mother survives this ordeal, her life will be irreparably broken. No, he’s not a “good kid”, I don’t care how terribly he feels, and at the end of the line it was his decisions, and his only, that caused all of this damage and tragedy.
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It’s vehicular manslaughter, DUI etc.
Another guy died from the party.
The company is responsible too. If he left in a company vehicle, he showed up in one. They didn’t care he was driving it off the clock. Hiway safety systems is just back peddling to distance themselves from their involvement. Just like Gregs facebook page was cleaned up.
According to weekend news report Highway Safety Systems has fired this guy. Additionally according to the news report in the early hours of December 29th the company asked for the keys to the vehicle. They didn’t get them, obviously.
Deport him!!!!
My opinion on all of this is I kind of know this guy and he’s been a menace to the roads of the Commonwealth for a long time and has never been very responsible. He is solely responsible for this terrible tragedy. He decided to get wasted and drive but our society loves to blame everyone so the company will also be screwed as they’re the ones with insurance and deep pockets. Obviously no matter what he gets it won’t bring this girl back but that doesn’t change that I hope he suffers daily in prison for a very long time. No one wins here.
Also, what’s with all the homophobic and anti gay comments? These comments bring nothing to the conversation and just sound ignorant.
I’m neither a doctor or an attorney
I just act like one on TB
I’m actually a homosexual angry at the world because I’ve got the virus
Cute.
Someone sure protest too much — wonder why….
Does this kind of remind everyone about the guy that killed the jogger in Millbury\Sutton in the summer. Not the facts per se but the actions taken by the driver? Also the type of employment? By the way, any updates on when the trial takes place in the Millbury case?
Most of the time I feel as if companies get dragged through the mud excessively when bad shit like this happens due to just one irresponsible shithead. But not this case, Hi-Way definitely has some blood on their hands with this one..
Hopefully the prosecution uses his stupid past social media rants in court to give this dirtbag a few extra years in prison.
I blame Hi-Way Safety Systems for this death.
1: It was THEIR TRUCK — wanna bet he doesn’t even own a vehicle? (How many can you wreck at age 30 before the insurance starts getting really expensive?)
It was their truck — all they had to say was you can’t drive OUR TRUCK home drunk and there wouldn’t have been an accident.
2: While it had yellow lights instead of blue, I’m wondering if cops might ignore it speeding presuming that it might be responding to an emergency, e.g. a police request to move/change a blinking sign, or drop cones to mark lanes around an accident. Likewise, I wonder how much the perp thought he would get away with speeding because of this.
3: A company Christmas party ending at what — 6AM? With another attendee being found dead (OD?) in a nearby motel? This sort of stuff would have been considered over-the-top in the 1950s — and the drunken Christmas party went out in the 1970s when all the sexual harassment stuff came in.
I have trouble believing that a responsible company would do something like this in 2019.
4: They hired him — he didn’t hire them, they hired him. They could have paid a little more and got someone a little bit more responsible — their choice and their responsibility.
He’s guilty of vehicular homicide and should be looking at serious time, but Hi-Way Safety Systems is also responsible. There wouldn’t have been an accident but for them.
You’re right that company didn’t act responsibly, but the fault is the guy who drove. This guy was probably at an after hours Party drinking and doing some nose candy. The company can’t patrol who drives. They can’t be responsible for someone else’s actions. Our culture LOVES to blame because we love to sue. There is always a reason other than the obvious. (Reference gun control for more ridiculous arguments about the mentally ill being more violent). It’s his fault. It was his choice. He has a pattern of this. Don’t miss that point.
Yes, afterparty at the boss’ house — that makes a difference.
I mean if you hire schmucks like him, and tolerate behavior like this, and permit them to use your equipment — then you are responsible.
What drives me crazy is when companies hire independent truck drivers who haul overloaded log or chip trucks to the mill and both the mill and logging company know the trucks were overloaded because of the load slips (the mill pays by the pound, less the tare of the truck) — and then when there is a fatality, they blame it solely on the driver.
No, you are responsible too….
Late to the party on this story, but I had a friend who worked for this company for a summer about 14 years ago
Guys would work 20 hour shifts, everybody was fucked up on pills constantly and while they were painting the lines guys would drink and smoke weed in the trucks, everything I read about this horrifying story is totally consistent with the apparent culture of this company.
The Responsibility for this TRAGEDY lies SQUARELY on the Driver – Period. No excuses. No ‘Someone-Else’s-Fault’…although Dad CERTAINLY IS NOT & HAS NOT HELPED. And The Driver IS NOT A KID. He is a 31-year-old person. A Person with a Problem Driving, among other suspected things. No BLAME GAME HERE – HE is At Fault. He should be punished severely…as a consequence…since prior ‘incidents’ didn’t seem to teach any lesson…and to save other fatalities from occurring.
No, Hi-Way Safety Systems is also responsible, much like the getaway driver is equally responsible for any murder in a bank robbery.
Another employee apparently OD, and how many more drove home drunk? In company vehicles?
If i hand out loaded guns on the street corner and someone goes and shoots someone with one of them, I’m not also responsible????
Dr Ed you are a really stupid cocksucker
All the fault lies with the driver
What the fuck are you a doctor of?
Fellatio?
You might want to read up on social host liability, master/servant liability, and vehicle owner liability.
That is assuming you know how to read.
Fr fellation
Go back to fucking your mother in the mouth
Dr fellation
Go back to fucking your mother in the mouth
And by the way anybody who thinks that the company isn’t partly responsible, look up dram shop law. It applies to people getting drunk in restaurants. This guy did cocaine and got drunk at his bosses party. She is responsible as well if we are looki g at dram shop law. They state they tried to take the keys??? Fucking lame. How come they didn’t call the police and refuse to have him leave? They suck and need to be dissolved as a company
Thank You for your reply…I ‘get’ that there are a number of people/etc hold some piece of responsibility…but if feel strongly that the DRIVER IS FULLY RESPONSIBLE. If a person pushes blame everywhere-else, then the person is off-the-hook (I feel)…
No, there have been cases where multiple people were executed for murders where only one had the gun. Holding the company responsible does not preclude also holding the perp responsible too.
Spic Tormentor need me to feel his hot mouth!!!!!!!
That faggot of a father is the real problem here. Cocksucker went through his whole 31 years of life taking zero accountability for anything because he knew that his dad would never make him take any.
Fuck his whole family
I want ur hot mouth Wet Back!! Ur comments feel like a mouth full of pubic hair
Lots of homophobic pieces of shit in the comments section. Some of y’all protest just a little too much and need to come out of the closet.
You cannot blame the father. At least I don’t. Even the darkest of shit stains have family who loves them and aren’t afraid to say it. I understand that people are going to stand by him. I get it – to an extent. I draw the line when I see (for example) that one of his associates on Facebook has taken to saying things such as “he who is without sin should cast the first stone.” This same person, a likely inbred fucktard from the Green Harbor area of Marshfield dramatically announced the cancellation of her New Year’s Eve party, due to “recent events.” Really. Your friend/relative just killed a kid and that’s what you take to Facebook with? That your party is cancelled and ostensibly you’re deprived of the chance to drown yourself and your shitbag crew with booze? I am not without sin but I will cast the first stone you douche. Have some respect and get off of Facebook at least for a week or two.
Bravo!
well said! I love my children too and if they kiled someone that way I would still love them but wouldn’t call it an accident or a mistake. Facebook is fucking awful, glad I got rid of it….a true cancer in society.
Just saw on LinkedIn a GFM was started for the family if one is so inclined. What a beautiful girl she was. Auburn hair, hazel eyes. Just gorgeous. A cryin fucking shame…
Rockets,
Undoubtedly this is a tragic story. However, gushing about how gorgeous (your own words) a 13 year old girl was is oddly skeevy. To go as far as to take note of hair and eye color makes it especially off putting. Whether or not you’re in fact as creepy as your comment came across, one can only speculate. Perhaps, poor execution? Hopefully.
The family was on their way to church.
Fuck you Greg Goodsell. Fuck you all the way to hell.
Do the world a favor and put dynamite in your asshole and light it. Record video of it so we can all celebrate an ending you deserve.
I am supposed to be a good, forgiving Christian man, but not for you, you piece of shit.
WeR
Your mother gives the best blow job in new england
your dad is a close second, no wonder you turned out as a soggy bottom. Fucking Faggot
The word is that the owner of the company is a big time campaign contributor to republicans, especially Baker The faker.
Why am I not surprised?
People like him who can not live by the rules of decent society and kill someone as a result deserve to be removed for several years. It will be a fuc*ing travesty if he only gets a year or two and is back out putting more innocent lives at risk far too soon.
I wish hold it Healey would get involved and make an example out of this shit stain. Maybe she will if we tell her he was wearing a MAGA hat
Healy can’t get involved right now
She has her tongue up her girl friends cunt
I cant blame the RMV for not taking his license they are an outstanding agency doing a great job Just like the MBTA
Ghost Cowboy sneaked a look at him from under his hat brim, unsure if he was a drunken loser or just a loser. “Now, that last little accident we had out there wasn’t my fault. I was just minding my own business when those miscreants from the Lazy Bar Y pulled out in front of me” Crash. Shattered glass and bones. The blame is laid. Happy New Year to you in prison. Hanging is too quick. Have another drink.
Ill be shocked if die to his past neglagence the defense doesn’t state he has “the drinking disease” and he needs help. Gets a treatment program and is out in 2 to 3 years. If 8 did this 12 years ago when i was 31 i would be staring at concrete for 25 to life. Fuck him and fuck his father. He is not a kid. He is a full fledged adult that should do the time for his crime. I hope he gets ass raped every day and has all his teeth knocked out and treated like a child killer in jail. Just beaten within an inch of life weekly… he is the epitome of a piece of shit.
Can’t wait for the follow up with his coworker found in the Rockvegas hotel room dead from the same party.
Hi-Way Safety!! This company has exhibited no knowledge of the field they pretend to be experts. Number one rule of safe driving is sober driving.
No check on his driving record. Who’s in charge of hiring?
I’m not usually a fan of attacking a business based on their employees, but this circumstance is different.
As a contractor for the state, they have a responsibility to the residents. This means safe employees. They have failed.
I think that you’ll find that there will be more stories to be written here. I encourage you to dig deeper.
Just read MassDot is reviewing existing state contracts with this company…
Take his tires.
This faggot’s father should be kicked in the balls (if he has any) for 30 minutes
hang the worthless Greg Goodsell, drunken dicklicker and murderer
Another homophobic piece of shit
whomever down voted this post takes it in the ass on a daily basis
Five star enabler of this murdering scum x 31 years.
Guaranteed some faggot or lesbian SJW judge will give him the minimum and he will repeat this again somewhere down the road no fucking doubt it in this corrupt state…
No matter the sexual orientation of his judge, this guy is in trouble huge, and I don’t see him skating away from this.
Now, that out of the way, I bet you march in the Gay Pride Parade every year. Yeah you do, pickle licker.
Bolt off
Go fuck your mother in the mouth
I didn’t get any dick last night at First Night, I usually clean up huge on Pride Parade Weekend.
What am I going to do with all this grease? I suppose my mom could use some, but that still leaves me with a three 55 gallon drums.
I hope they investigate the company fully, but it would not surprise me if he left the company party and got wasted someplace else. But, if he left the party that way, then destroy them
He was driving a company truck. Look at the wreck photos, it’s even labeled company.
Hi-Way Safety Systems is screwed — the company vehicle alone is enough and the insurance company is going to argue that this was outside of what they insured for. Then throw in he was present at a company party hosted at his boss’ house — and who purchased the half-empty bottle of booze he had with him? My guess is that it was said boss who likely did it with a credit card. Throw in social host law and he is screwed.
Thanks for exposing this POS, I have been watching this story develop, glad you got to it.
Get him drunk. Tie him in a car with no airbags and push it off a 500 foot sheer cliff.
Problem solved.
I can’t stand that expression he’s a good kid no he’s not a good kid he’s a piece of shit
Love the content but your title is incorrect. While the accident happened in Pembroke, the pubestache is from Marshfield…
Time to bring the stocks back to the times square.
Wait, this motherfucker killed a kid and his fucking dad has the nerve to say:
“He’s a good kid, he just screwed up, he knows it. This was a company Christmas party that obviously got out of hand. I assure you my son feels terrible.”
Please tell me that’s a joke.
What do you expect? The father to call his son out to be the living shitstain that he is? While it’s not a good statement, it’s passable. I’m pretty sure DUI manslaughter carries a min sentence of 5 years and max sentence of 25 so if the father wants to see his son again in his lifetime it’s in his best interest to downplay it. Don’t blame the father, blame the 31 year old manboy.
No, man. He doesn’t have to say that, but how about something like “My son has made terrible choices and done something awful and needs to get help and get punished.” It’s what I would say if it were my son, and this piece of shit has a long-established habit of drunken driving. What the dad actually said isn’t passable at all, what planet are you from? He’s pretty much saying “Aw, he’s just a little stinker. He messed up but feels awful about the whole thing.” It’s one of the most callous, disrespectful, and brutally tone-deaf statements I’ve ever read. The dad should get jail time too, honestly.
I completely agree. Company and the father need jail time too. Hiway systems so trying to cover their own ass. Despicable.