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Tragic series of events in LP leaving 2 BR children dead...
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:14 pm
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What a tragic series of events. I didn't realize you could be charged with Vehicular Homicide by leaving obstacles laying in the road that led to a death, even though that guy was a dumbfrick for not removing the debris and deserves to get arrested for something. I just didn't know it would be Vehicular Homicide and Felony Hit and Run. Never really thought about it actually. Poor children and mother.
What a tragic series of events. I didn't realize you could be charged with Vehicular Homicide by leaving obstacles laying in the road that led to a death, even though that guy was a dumbfrick for not removing the debris and deserves to get arrested for something. I just didn't know it would be Vehicular Homicide and Felony Hit and Run. Never really thought about it actually. Poor children and mother.
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Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:20 pm to supadave3
quote:Holy shite
The occupants of Ramsey and Butler’s vehicles placed caution triangles along the roadway to warn oncoming motorists of the hazard. While they were attempting the remove the garbage compactor from the roadway, Jerry Ervin III, 26, of Holden drove through the triangles in his 1998 Toyota 4 Runner. Ervin ran off the right side of the roadway and struck both Ramsey’s and Butler’s vehicles and five of the occupants who were standing outside of the vehicles.
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The crash occurred after Travis Rose, 50, of Denham Springs made a left turn from a private drive onto LA 447 in a 1997 Nissan pickup. A garbage compactor fell out of the bed of Rose’s vehicle and landed in the northbound lane of LA 447. Rose left the object in the roadway and drove back to his residence.
WTF?
quote:I don't agree with what Rose did, but how is it that he's charged with vehicular homicide?
Troopers located Rose at his residence and determined that he was impaired. He was placed under arrest and booked into the Livingston Parish Jail for vehicular homicide, felony hit and run, aggravated obstruction of highway, failure to secure load, and no insurance.
This post was edited on 4/11/16 at 12:25 pm
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:27 pm to ForeverLSU02
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I don't agree with what Rose did, but how is it that he's charged with vehicular homicide?
Yeah, I wondered the same thing. Seems like a weird chargee for that.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:29 pm to supadave3
Absolutely horrible...that's a nightmare those people will never awake from
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:30 pm to ForeverLSU02
quote:
I don't agree with what Rose did, but how is it that he's charged with vehicular homicide?
Seems like negligent homicide fits more here.
Regardless, partially his fault that those kids are dead.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:31 pm to LSUBoo
Oh, I definitely agree
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:33 pm to supadave3
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A garbage compactor fell out of the bed of Rose’s vehicle and landed in the northbound lane of LA 447. Rose left the object in the roadway and drove back to his residence
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Jerry Ervin III, 26, of Holden drove through the triangles in his 1998 Toyota 4 Runner
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driver impairment
That's infuriating and sadly typical. I see this shite every day. Everybody in a hurry, and nobody has time to be their brother's keeper, and factor a worst-case-scenario into their decision logic. Stupid motherfrickers everywhere, taking lives.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:34 pm to ForeverLSU02
quote:
but how is it that he's charged with vehicular homicide?
My guess is those charges were knee-jerk reactions after officers got a firsthand look of the aftermath
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:34 pm to ForeverLSU02
NM, my bad. I thought Rose was driving the car that killed them.
Carry on
Carry on
This post was edited on 4/11/16 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:34 pm to The Mick
quote:what about ole baw run thru the road hazard triangles placed in the road?
Really?
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:34 pm to supadave3
Stay out of Lake Providence
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:35 pm to supadave3
Why do you have to make such a hazzard sign production getting this compacter off the road? Just lift and tumble the thing to the shoulder. 30 second job, or is this some 4 lane with tons of traffic?
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:36 pm to meauxjeaux2
See my edit, misread OP.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:37 pm to mulletproof
probably in this blind curve
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:37 pm to supadave3
What an awful story. Appears Michelle Ramsey, the driver of one of the vehicles on the side of the road, hit the compactor in the middle of the road. That started the chain of events where the Butler woman pulled over as well. Damn that is just terrible.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:38 pm to ForeverLSU02
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how is it that he's charged with vehicular homicide?
In Louisiana, that charge RS 14:32.1 is only available when the operator is impaired in some way, so this is bad reporting or mischarging by the authorities.
Maybe "negligent homicide" RS 14:32 - is available.
Lay people make this mistake all the time, though, confusing 1 for the other.
ETA: I'm seeing the reporting develop if he was proven to be impaired, it's possible vehicular homicide is available under that fact pattern.
This post was edited on 4/11/16 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:38 pm to mulletproof
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Why do you have to make such a hazzard sign production getting this compacter off the road?
It was two women who were pulled over, one of which had already hit the compactor.
It wasn't some elaborate operation.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:38 pm to The Mick
"Two drivers involved in the four-vehicle incident are suspected of being impaired."
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:39 pm to ForeverLSU02
quote:
I don't agree with what Rose did, but how is it that he's charged with vehicular homicide?
quote:
Travis Rose, 50, of Denham Springs made a left turn from a private drive onto LA 447 in a 1997 Nissan pickup. A garbage compactor fell out of the bed of Rose’s vehicle and landed in the northbound lane of LA 447. Rose left the object in the roadway and drove back to his residence
Posted on 4/11/16 at 12:39 pm to Lsupimp
Failure to Secure Load seems logical but can you prove that he knew it fell out of his truck? If he didn't know then how could he do anything about it? He was impaired so he is going to have a really hard time defending himself, either way. That is such horrible luck for the families involved and it sounds like one of the vehicles was just there helping.
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