Posted on 07/14/2017 3:58:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police arrested a 17-year-old girl after she crashed her vehicle into an Indiana home Wednesday night, killing two sisters inside, according to officials.
Family members said the girls, 17-year-old Haleigh and 9-year-old Callie Fullerton, were watching TV in the living room when the car plowed into the house just before 9:30 p.m. They were killed on impact, according to WXIN-TV.
It's still unclear what caused the driver, who police say was traveling at about 80 miles per hour, to lose control, sending the car careening into the home, located 100 feet away from the roadway.
The Clinton County Sheriff's Office says they asked the prosecutor to charge the driver with criminal recklessness resulting in death. At a press conference earlier in the day, officials with the sheriff's office said the driver may have been under the influence of opioids and she could face more serious charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated causing death, and operating a vehicle while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury if the presence of opioids is confirmed.
When Clinton County Sheriff's deputies arrived on scene, they found a white vehicle in the living room. Several people were still in the vehicle, according to the sheriff's department.
The girls' mother, 37-year-old Bridget Fullerton, was walking into the room as the car came crashing through the home; she was flown by helicopter to an Indianapolis-area hospital for treatment. Her condition is unknown at this time.
A third sibling was upstairs at the time of the crash, and he was uninjured. Father Dennis Fullerton was not home when it happened.
Investigators say there were three other juveniles in the car at the time of the crash. They were treated with non-life threatening injuries at the scene.
The home has major damage, and local members of the Fullertons' church helped secure it.
The vehicle involved in the incident has been impounded by authorities. The driver was taken to the juvenile detention center in Delaware County.
The prosecutor's office will determine if the 17-year-old driver will face charges as an adult.
A GoFundMe account has been set up for those who would like to provide donations for the Fullertons.
If you want to get drunk, nod out on opioids, or trip on acid at home or in a safe place, then I have no problem with it.
But if you're going to do stuff like that and then operate a motor vehicle, and through criminal negligence take the lives of innocents, then you should be nailed to the wall.
It's bad enough when people are killed in vehicle accidents when people aren't intoxicated, but when they are impaired, there's simply no excuse for it, and the legal ramifications should be most severe.
If we're going to live in a free society, then abuse of those freedoms—to the point where it irrevocably harms others—cannot be answered mercy or leniency. The only way to minimize such incidents in a free society is to have zero tolerance, and to make sure everyone knows the consequences of such abuse of the rights of others.
It's tragic that these two sisters died, and tragic that another person's life will also be destroyed, but there must be dire consequences for such avoidable negligence...
I’d like to see the driving age raised to 17, with the caveat that friends not be allowed to drive with each other; and the drinking age lowered to 19, with the caveat that alcohol can be served to people at age 19, but not sold to anyone under 21.
She should be.
Wife went on to become a Superior Court Judge and has a reputation of being a merciless nightmare for anyone arrested for DUI.
Don’t treat the driver any differently than if she had taken a gun and started wildly shooting in a neighborhood.
Don’t treat the driver any differently than if she had taken a gun and started wildly shooting in a neighborhood.
Death penalty. Need to get f**king serious about this crap
A friend of mine had a barn like that.
People just seemed to like hitting his barn.
One day he took a backhoe and dug a trench that would stop a tank, 8 feet deep and 12 feet wide.
The wrecker only had to fish two totaled cars out of his “ditch” for people to get the idea.
A former friend of mine drove right into someone’s livingroom. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The driver was seriously effed up at the time. His wife packed up and moved out the very next day.
What an absolute nightmare.
We all relax when the kids are in for the night-——never thinking of something like this.
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What could possibly go wrong?
I see homes at the end of roads and I think of what a nightmare it would be to live in one. This happened to a neighbor of my mother’s.
” use emergency brake “
No such thing as an “emergency” brake. The parking brake is more likely to cause the vehicle to spin and flip at that speed
I should add there were no fatalities to my mother’s neighbor, but a car crashed through their home at the end of a road.
Indiana recently passed a law (as a paid-for handout to the major auto manufacturers) essentially preventing Teslas from being sold in Indiana
What does this story about a driver high on opioids have to do with legalized marijuana in a state where recreational marijuana isn't even legal?
Maybe not texting but I’d give good odds that a phone is involved.
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