A Monroe County judge sentenced 28-year-old Marcus Derraine Snow to one and a half to four and a half years in prison Friday for the crash that killed road construction worker Robert Faber, 43, in Parma last November. Faber's family told reporters outside the courtroom that the sentence was not enough.
Snow pleaded guilty in August to second-degree manslaughter, admitting in court that he drove recklessly over the speed limit in a worn-out car with poor tires during bad weather, according to RochesterFirst. His attorney said drugs and alcohol were not involved in the crash. The guilty plea came under an agreed-upon plea arrangement.
The crash happened on November 5, 2025, at the intersection of Parma Center Road and Bailey Road, where Faber was working at a road closure site, as 13WHAM-TV reported. Snow's car crashed through work-zone barriers and struck a parked work truck, which then collided with Faber. He was taken to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries, according to WHEC-TV.
A Mother's Grief, A Family's Frustration
Faber's family remembered him as a devoted son, brother and uncle. His mother, Sharon Faber, described him in starkly personal terms to the same station's report: “He was my free spirit,” she said, adding that life would never be the same without him.
The family's disappointment centered on the length of the sentence handed down in Monroe County Court. Faber's relatives said the one-and-a-half-to-four-and-a-half-year term did not match the severity of losing him, the station's report noted, even as the case moved through the legal process from guilty plea to sentencing within a matter of months.
The Charge and the Case
The Vehicular Crime Bureau at the District Attorney's Office prosecuted the case. Under New York Penal Law section 125.15, a person is guilty of second-degree manslaughter when they recklessly cause the death of another person, according to the New York State Senate's codified statute.
New York maintains a registry of fatalities in the construction industry. New York law requires the state Department of Labor to maintain a public registry of workplace fatalities in the construction industry, built from reports submitted by county coroners, medical examiners and other officials authorized to register deaths, per the New York State Department of Labor.
Statewide figures illustrate how broad the risks facing construction crews can be, even if they don't speak directly to roadway incidents like the one that killed Faber. In 2024, falls, slips and trips accounted for 24 of 55 construction and extraction fatalities across New York, while construction trades workers made up 42 of the fatal workplace injuries within that broader category, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
