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Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, April 21, 1996 TAG: 9604220085
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: FAIRFAX
SOURCE: Associated Press
A man who set off an accident that took his life and two others was driving with a suspended license, police confirmed.
Billy M. Canipe Jr., 26, had been convicted twice of driving with a suspended license, had amassed at least 15 traffic tickets since 1988 and was driving with a suspended license.
Officials call his case an example of how withdrawing driving privileges for chronically bad drivers often does no good.
``There's nothing you can do to ensure it, short of locking them up,'' said Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr. Even that doesn't always work in the long run.
``There are some people out there who flat never learn,'' Horan said. ``I would imagine that on any day of the week you could go to the Fairfax County Jail, and you would find a dozen or more prisoners who are pulling time for driving on suspended permits.''
U.S. Park Police continued to investigate the cause of Wednesday's crash on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, which killed Canipe, of Alexandria; Nancy E. McBrien, 41, of Vienna; and George H. Smyth Jr., 49, of Poolesville.
Records show Canipe's most recent ticket was in January, for driving 49 mph in a 35-mph zone.
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