A 24-year-old woman was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in the wake of a deadly 2014 hit and run in Pickerington.
This comes after Christina Robinson was indicted in April on one count vehicular homicide, one count vehicular assault, tampering with evidence and failure to stop in the death of 58-year-old Gayle Jackowski.
Gayle was thrown from the bike when another car bumped their bike against a guardrail on I-70 in Pickerington last July.
Robinson was identified after an anonymous tip came into CrimeStoppers in March. The caller said that a man she knew a man who claimed that his daughter had "gotten away" with the crash.
Robinson was sentenced to 72 months in prison, with 18 months suspended in exchange for community service. Her driver’s license was also suspended for 13 years.
“I call it a little bit of justice,” said Gayle’s husband Carl. “I would have liked to have seen her a lot longer in jail.”
“The sentence I was given was a life sentence,” Carl said. “My son has one, too. He can’t see his mother. I can’t see Gayle.”
Jackowski still remembers the incident. He says Robinson, distracted by talking on the phone, hit the front of his motorcycle sending the trailer they were hauling into the guardrail.
Gayle was ejected.
“But when I got to her, I tried getting her to talk to me and the only thing she says… ‘I hurt’,” he said. “And her head fell.”
His wife of 39 years and four days died in his arms.
“I was glad I was there with her,” he said. “[I] wanted to be with her longer.”
More than a year after her death, Carl Jackowski still misses the little things.
“Holding her hand,” he said. “That’s the thing I miss the most.”
It’s precisely the reason he continues to hold on to Gayle’s cell phone. He doesn’t want to forget what he had while now being forced to walk alone and travel the road of life on his own.