re: Black Range Rover hits and kills man on Ben Hur Rd, then leaves the scene.

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In that part of town on a Saturday night it sounds more like a white sorority girl from LSU.

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Well we see what happens when they stop for a train. Certainly shouldn't stop for 2 guys in the road.

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So this kid said he had no idea he hit Jude until the next morning when he saw it somewhere

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I was thinking the same thing

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Witnesses in the car would know if Brister knew he hit a person.

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This kid likely has friends in high places. 100% his attorney has talked to all the kids to keep their mouths shut until they come up with a plan to talk to police/testify. I would find the people who aren't friends with the driver to be more credible given that they have no stake in the relationship with Brister.

Also, you 100% know you ran over a person if you hit them, unless you were shitfaced and blackout.

Since when does one determine the manner in which they will turn themselves in?

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Isn’t it a bit ironic the victim hit and killed a guy on a bike 24 years ago?

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Would like to hear more about this.

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Would like to hear more about this

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Same. Not that this would put any fault on the victim but would be pretty crazy

Agreed

On Facebook from Telesssie Baylor FWIW

“So the lady is mixing a little truth with a whole lot of lies
Yes Drew (I think she means Jude)
did run over man yes Jude did keep on going and go to work it was early in the morning Jude was on his way to work not drag racing
The man was passed out laying in the roadway Jude hit him and thought it was a dead animal it was laying in the road
What’s the news came out that a man laying in the roadway had got hit by a car and killed Jude turned himself in because he realized at that location that’s where he thought he hit the animal
The toxicology report came back on the guy and he was he had so many drugs and so much alcohol in your system did they drop the case they didn’t charge Jude with anything”

Crazy how similar the incidents were

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Not sure exactly the Florida statute but in Louisiana, you commit vehicular homicide if you hit and kill someone with a BAC over .08 whether you intended it or not. Fault doesn't matter on the part of the deceased.

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I was looking the law (but not on Louisiana’s website for original version), and it looked like at some point after 2006 the state tacked on “…and such condition was a contributing factor to the killing” to the end of Section A which is right before listing the conditions - DUI and other impairment clauses.

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RS 14:32.1 - Vehicular homicide
A. Vehicular homicide is the killing of a human being caused proximately or caused directly by an offender engaged in the operation of, or in actual physical control of, any motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or other means of conveyance, whether or not the offender had the intent to cause death or great bodily harm, whenever any of the following conditions exists and such condition was a contributing factor to the killing

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If this was actually added (other site may be off with 2006 version) was it added to at least consider situations where other driver or pedestrian killed might have been completely in the wrong?

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Absolutely NOT frick this. You’re now going to blame the person that let them cross and the victim. People need to be patient and stop driving around vehicles in front of them the second there is a wait. This shite happens all the time and this time sadly someone was killed.

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Has a more specific location on Ben Hur and direction of vehicle been officially reported by police (if mentioned in discussion I missed it)?

There is small section of Ben Hur close to Burbank that has multiple lanes. Going away from Burbank it’s 2 lanes until past creek Centre. Going towards Burbank past creek Centre (& then past oncoming turn lane into apartments) a right turn only lane and a left turn lane open up on sides of the single lane that can turn left or continue straight into apartment complex entrance. If it took place where there are multiple lanes and it’s not well lit like others have mentioned not seeing people start to cross and just seeing a car going slow or stopping for apparently no reason it’s normal for cars to go around. That’s usually the point of additional lanes.

Where it’s 2 lanes all I see is double yellow lines making passing illegal, but my Map app is stuck in Apple’s 3D faux satellite view when that view is available and can’t see more recent satellite view on device I am using right now. If changes have made it legal to pass a single car in some spots where it’s 2 lane and that’s also where accident happened I also think it would be fairly common to do so if a car is going to slow or seemingly stopping out of the blue while not seeing anything else oncoming or crossing (again based on legality, how well lit area is, and other visibility factors).


Very often people flashing lights or waving people or cars to cross in front aren’t paying attention to other traffic or lanes and may be blocking the person’s view of that traffic (or flashing lights at night may cause temp vision spots or temp restrict view as well). Without a specific regulation stating to not do it I doubt a flashing car can be held criminally at fault outside of them causing accident behind them by blocking traffic at the blue, but it will the fault of the car or person crossing in front (jaywalking) if they hit or get hit by a car that is legally passing in a additional lane or other scenario where passing is legal. You can’t use the excuse a car kept waving for me to cross in front of it. Trust me my wife tried…

Edit: The Range Rover driver is in the wrong for leaving the scene. That is obvious. Whether he (or maybe someone for sure not drinking would be better example) would have been at fault before fleeing just for where and how he passed the car stopped before hitting victim is not as clear due to limited details released or that I have read.