Pennsylvania: wild ride for Chinese take-out led to lead-foot Phillip Tomsic and firey crash that killed Anthony Washington

 

 Phillip Tomsic faces stretch in prison…Anthony Washington is a-mouldering in his grave instead of graduating from college…
From Daily Local News
WEST CHESTER – A Common Pleas Court judge on Wednesday found a Lincoln University student guilty in a 2011 fatal crash, a verdict that may see him sent to state prison for at least three years.

Judge Anthony Sarcione found Phillip Tomsic guilty of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, aggravated assault while DUI, involuntary manslaughter, recklessly endangering another person, and related charges, after hearing the case without a jury for three days earlier this month.

Tomsic was at the wheel of a borrowed car on Nov. 4, 2011 when it slammed into a tree on Ashum Road just off the Lincoln University campus in Lower Oxford. He and two friends, Anthony Vernon Washington and Kadeem Fulmore, had gone to get Chinese food at an Oxford restaurant and were on their way back to the campus when the crash occurred. Police said the car was travelling at an excessive rate of speed when it left the road and hit the tree.

 The car burst into flames. Washington, 21, was killed instantly by blunt force trauma. Fulmore, now 23, suffered massive injuries  and severe burns ….MORE