... "the fatal car crash happened at a main thoroughfare; near the stoplight at Terminal Island..." ( McArthur Causeway )
A stoplight! Did he run the light? Was he speeding? Something!
I hope that this is just a tragic accident and there were no drugs involved.
From what I saw on TV the pedestrian was in an area not intended for walking.
At 7:00 am, people who are not at work, or in transit to or from work, should not be out for a drive or walking across highways.
Another “model citizen” from the University of Tennessee.
President Obama should outlaw cars and causeways.
He should also outlaw the beach.
Also, walking should be regulated. Walking increases carbon-dioxide output.
And one more thing.
In this calculated murder, am I alone in noticing the telltale signs of Halliburton?
... "the fatal car crash happened at a main thoroughfare; near the stoplight at Terminal Island..." ( McArthur Causeway )
A stoplight! Did he run the light? Was he speeding? Something!
This car crash thread is no better than the Cable sNooz’s lineup of chils murderers and police chases...FReeper are better than this???
From the picture posted above, if the victim was at or near the light, then Stallworth should have been prepared to yield for pedestrians.
Also, Stallworth’s cell phone records will show whether he was text messaging or talking at the time.
More details — this strongly implies that Stallworth went off the side of the road and struck the victim who was at the roadside waiting for a bus. The victom was NOT a drunk or streetperson, he had just finished his work shift right at the scene:
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Stallworth, 28, was headed eastbound in his black Bentley about 7:17 a.m. when he plowed into 59-year-old Mario Reyes near the stop light at Terminal Island, according to police.
A Bentley with heavy front-end damage and without its passenger side mirror was towed into the police parking lot about 1 p.m.
The crash flung Reyes about a dozen feet, said co-worker Renier Calana.
‘’We had all finished working all night, and when the time came for him to leave, he grabbed his stuff and headed to the bus stop out front,’’ said Calana, who worked with Reyes unloading the cargo containers from the Port of Miami.
``We could hear the impact. We all ran out, and he was lying there unconscious in the middle. The police and ambulance came. He was alive when they took him, they tried to revive him but it didn’t work.’’
Sanchez said Reyes was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.
JUST FINISHED WORK
Reyes, a crane operator with shipping company Bernuth Agencies, located just feet from where the crash occurred, had clocked out only seven minutes before he was struck by Stallworth’s Bentley.
The crash happened near the bus stop where he waited every morning for a bus ride home to Southwest Miami-Dade, where he lived with his wife and daughter, according to co-workers.
A GOOD FRIEND
Calana said Reyes was a good friend and hard worker, and often talked about his 14-year-old daughter.
‘’He loved her. He talked about her all the time. They were very close,’’ he said.
Traffic on the MacArthur, Venetian and Julia Tuttle causeways was backed up to the mainland for hours Saturday because of the accident.
Stallworth, who records show owns two condos downtown and in midtown, has played for four different teams in the past four years and is coming off the least productive of his seven NFL seasons.
PAST TROUBLE
Stallworth’s driving has gotten him in trouble with Miami Beach police before.
In March of 2006, while a member of the New Orleans Saints, Stallworth was arrested after resisting arrest during a traffic stop.
He was pulled over in his black 2005 Bentley just after 5 a.m. on Washington Avenue for driving with an expired paper tag.
According to an arrest report, Stallworth tried to drive away from officers and then refused to step out of his car, shut off the Bentley’s engine or get off his cellphone.
Charges were filed, but he was not prosecuted.