Posted on 03/07/2005 7:53:32 AM PST by Kaslin
A 20-year-old Clarksville man might face charges in connection with a woman's death after his 1992 Honda Accord crashed into the car she was in Saturday night, police said.
The impact split the 1999 Honda Civic in two and killed Guadalupe Aguilar, 23, of Tynewood Drive. Her fiance, Andrew Gold, 25, was driving, said Officer Jimmy Dill, of Clarksville Police Department's Fatal Accident Crash Team.
Gold was turning left onto Ringgold Road about 9:15 p.m. Saturday, when the Accord, driven by Fernando Ruiz Hernandez of 2871 Fort Campbell Blvd., hit his car, Dill said.
The officers said Hernandez ran a red light on Fort Campbell Boulevard. Speed did not appear to be a factor, but Hernandez might have been drinking alcohol, Dill said.
"The impact hit on her door and spun around" Dill said. "It wasn't so much he was speeding, but he just hit a weak spot in the car."
Aguilar, originally from New Mexico, was living with Gold, who is a soldier at Fort Campbell, Dill said. Both were wearing seat belts. Gold and Hernandez received minor injuries and were treated and released.
Aguilar died at the scene.
Dill described the wreck as chaotic.
"I've never seen a car ripped in half like that. It was one of the worst ones I've seen," Dill said.
Hernandez, who is from Mexico but living in Clarksville, was charged and held in the Montgomery County Jail for driving with no license, having no insurance, and possession and consumption of alcohol under 21. Dill said he expects to get blood-alcohol test results in about two weeks to determine if more charges will be filed.
Just wrecking the cars that Americans don't want to wreck...
Maybe he's a guest driver.
Thank goodness she was wearing the all-important seatbelt. (/sarc.)
Free Trade bump!
Driver maybe....guest? NEVER
Your post would be marginally more coherent if you blamed NAFTA.
For a moment this sounded like a horrible traffic accident in downtown Mexico City until I read the details.
~ Blue Jays ~
A trade we could work with. Such as, we trade them their criminals back in exchange for not carpet bombing their country.
Ahhhhhhhhh, geez, this is getting so hard to take. We are expecting our first grandchild in August and are absolutely in awe of it all and filled with love for this yet to be born baby of ours.
Now there is a little one gone before he/she had a chance to live. Now the baby sleeps with its mother and in the arms of the Lord. I hope and pray the father will be OK. I can't even BEGIN TO IMAGINE what this man is going through. His anguish must just be overwhelming. I hope he has lots of family to comfort him and help him thorugh this terrible, unspeakable ordeal. His wife and unborn child gone in a flash. I am feeling so sad..aren't we all? :(
He was an "undocumented worker", not an illegal alien...
That's just awful. I'm starting to realize why so many people are buying SUV's and restoring older cars. The gas prices suck, but at least if someone hits you, you're safe.
The car was split in half...
NAFTA = Free Trade. Thank the Lord I had the foresight to see that it was a bum's wrap and I opposed that pig-in-a-poke. Did you?
Just because it's not 100% effective, doesn't mean it's not better to wear one than not. Note that her fiance was wearing one too, and got off with minor injuries. With the kind of impact described, he would have been tossed around like a sock in a dryer had he not been belted in.
Unless they hit you with a bigger SUV than yours. Think GMC envoy verses a big old Suburban.
This case was two Honda's, the one that got split was the Civic, the one driven by the drunken Mexican was an Accord. However a '92 Accord isn't all that much bigger than a '99 Civic. Not as much difference in size as a '99 of each or '92 of each would have been.
God only knows, if I had opposed NAFTA, then this accident wouldn't have happened. /sarc
Not the point.
Seatbelts may or may not be a good idea, but they are a terrible LAW!
We never hear about the times seatbelts CAUSE a persons serious injury or death, do we?
Wonder why.
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