Results tagged “vehicularmanslaughter”

A few days after a cop was indicted for vehicular manslaughter and DWI for the death of Vionique Valnord, her family appeared with the Reverend Al Sharpton yesterday. NY1 reports that Sharpton told his supporters to monitor Police Officer Andrew Kelly's trial, "It is important this this officer faces justice, so that people understand that the law is the law no matter who breaks the law. You don't get a break. There's no excuse for a policeman to be driving drunk."

Early Sunday morning, a Bronx woman driving a 1998 Mercury Sable—carrying seven children, including her daughter, ages 11 to 14—crashed and overturned her car on the West Side Highway. An 11-year-old girl was killed and the Daily News reports, "Investigators said Carmen Huertas' blood-alcohol content was more than one and a half times the legal limit." Huertas, 31, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and drunk driving. The girl's father said, "I call this murder."

Two years ago, Louis Wiederer tried to stop his girlfriend from driving away from a Suffolk County block party while drunk. But Jesenia Vega ignored him and drove off—and Wiederer, who was clinging to her Nissan Altima's window, slipped off and was caught under the car and killed. Vega dragged his body 600 feet before stopping. Vega, who initially claimed that Widener was hitting her and she was trying to get away (a witness had said, "It looked like he was hitting her, but he was trying to stop her... She was totally irrational"), had pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter and DWI earlier this year. Now she faces one to three years in prison; Vega said yesterday, "It was a bad, bad accident that I have to relive everyday." Wiederer's mother said, "Louis was too good for you, Jesenia."

Some more details about the early Saturday car crash on the FDR Driver that left one driver dead and another driver charged with DWI and vehicular manslaughter. The charged driver, Brandon Connelly, reportedly had a 0.114 blood alcohol level (the legal limit is 0.08); his Audi hit a Chevy Tahoe (which hit a concrete median) near Catherine Slip, just north of the Brooklyn Bridge, and then the Audi hit a Dodge Caravan. The Tahoe's driver Jamil Aljabal, 42, of Henderson, NC, was killed, while four other people plus Connelly were injured. Connelly is a Marine and his wife told the Post, "We're hurting for all the families, for everybody... He's an amazing, loving father. He served his country, and he did it proudly." And Connelly's step-grandfather said, "The first tour he went on, he was training [Iraqi] guys. After 9/11, that tour was a tough one. That's all he said: 'It wasn't like my last tour.' It was unpleasant."

If one ever needed an additional reason to buckle up, there's the news of two men who were killed while traveling in a car piloted by a drunken driver. 28-year-old Stephen Bush was speeding down Rockaway Blvd. early Saturday morning when he lost control of his Cadillac sedan and drove through the front of a carpet store in Rosedale. Bush was uninjured, but two of his passengers--Garfield Nelson and Wayne Burnette--were both killed. A third person was mildly injured.

The drunk driver who fatally struck a 24-year-old woman on East 4th and Bowery--and kept driving--last year has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter. Twenty-one-year-old Tenzing Bhutia, a senior at Baruch, will serve a two-year sentence starting in June for killing Julia Thomson (pictured) with his father's Mercedes last October.

Yesterday, a NJ volunteer firefighter was found guilty of fatally hitting an off-duty police officer. Robert Derian, who had a blood alcohol level of 0.12, had been driving his Jeep on the West Side Highwaywhen he hit 29-year-old Eric Concepcion.

Eugenio Cidron, the man who killed bicyclist Eric Ng in 2006 after driving drunk down the West Side bike path instead of the West Side Highway following a holiday party at Chelsea Piers, was sentenced yesterday to three to 10 years in prison. Cidron had driven over a plastic pylon to enter the path from Chelsea Piers and had been driving south for a mile before hitting Ng, who was traveling north.

A 66-year-old man driving a Nissan Maxima was fatally hit by a drunk driver on Woodhaven Boulevard, between 101st Avenue and 97th Avenue in Ozone Park. Twenty-five-year-old Christopher Rivera, driving a Honda Accord, crossed the road's median around 10:45PM and slammed into the Maxima driving in the opposite direction. The Maxima then hit a third car, a BMW. The Maxima's driver was pronounced dead at the scene, his passenger was injured, as well as Rivera...