Category Archives: injury or death
North Carolina: Rabah Samara finds being sober behind the wheel not his deal; now gets easy treatment from another silly judge
A Cary man involved in a hit-and-run 11 years ago that killed a reporter has since faced three drunken driving charges, much to the dismay of the reporter’s parents.
Stephen Gates, a sports reporter at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was changing a tire on the shoulder of Interstate 40 in Orange County on Oct. 4, 2003, when he was hit and killed.
Rabah Samara was a passenger in the Cadillac Escalade that hit Gates, but when driver Emily Caveness stopped, he got behind the wheel and drove off. He said at the time that he thought they had hit a deer, although prosecutors said two truck drivers had told him that they had hit Gates.
California: DUI drug counselor Sherri Lynn Wilkins who killed Phillip Moreno and drove off with him embedded in her windshield gets 55 years to life in slammer
Wilkins continued to drive for two miles with Moreno, who was still alive, on her windshield
California: District Attorney orders release of Deanna Marie Soto in DUI fatal death of motorcyclist Robert Lavender III
A woman was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after a crash that killed a 29-year-old Carson man Saturday morning, police said.
Robert Lavender III was identified Saturday by the Orange County Coroner as the driver of a Harley Davidson who was killed about 1:53 a.m. at West Walnut Avenue and South Lemon Street when he collided with a Nissan Sentra that was making a left turn, police said
California: Soukvilay Barton killed her dad when he tried to stop her from driving drunk; backed over him
Witnesses told police 37-year-old Soukvilay Barton had been drinking and arguing with family members about 6:20 p.m. Friday at their home in the 14000 block of Bush Avenue in Riverside. After becoming upset, she tried to leave in her BMW, which was parked in the garage, police said.
As Barton entered the car, her father, Bounmy Rajsombath, tried convincing her that she should not drive after drinking, police said.
South Carolina: What was 16-year-old girl doing in a car driven by DUI driver 23-year-old Rasheed Reeves?
Troopers said Rasheed Reeves, 23, was driving drunk when his 2005 Ford Crown Victoria ran off the left side of the roadway, then veered back across the interstate and hit a guard rail on the right side.
Troopers said Reeves and a 16-year-old Greenwood girl were not wearing seatbelts and were ejected from the car. Both were taken to the hospital where the girl later died.
The Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Shykeria Lyle-Daja Watts of Cemetery Road.
