Posted on 10/27/2023 2:52:56 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- The driver in a Malibu crash that killed four Pepperdine University students pleaded not guilty to murder during his first court appearance Wednesday, and prosecutors said he was speeding at more than 100 mph moments before the crash.
Fraser Bohm, 22, is charged with four counts of murder and four counts of gross vehicular manslaughter.
Bohm was not visible in court Wednesday as he entered a not guilty plea. Bohm's attorney Michael Kraut claimed his client was trying to get away from someone who was aggressively chasing him just before the deadly crash on the Pacific Coast Highway last week. Investigators say Bohm was speeding when he lost control of his car and hit several parked cars, which crashed into the women who died.
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My favorite long distance drive is the southern half of Boston to Tampa.I-95 in the Carolinas and Georgia is as flat as can be and I love it.
And whenever I'm doing a long Interstate drive I take a caffeine pill just before and about every 5 hours.
That's a nice thought, but usually it's because someone wouldn't sell, or they needed to run it through the land of a judge or politician whose cooperation was needed - honest graft as Plunkitt of Tamany Hall called it.
““Affluenza” will set him free.”
And people making $30k a year will cheer.
Good one.
Uh, PCH in that area is mostly straight and level as Kansas. The few curves can easily be taken at over 100, traffic permitting.,
This sounds like a rich kid driving a BMW that thought that made him a pro driver. He screwed up playing Mario Andretti. SoCal is full of those.
Dead Man’s curve does not exist, but was assumed to be along Sunset Blvd.
I drove that area for decades, I do know it.
According to the computer that was checked from his vehicle, his top speed was not 104, but was 70 at best. According to the article.
This was not far from where the illegal alien, while drunk driving killed the director of “The Christmas Story” and his kid on PCH, not far from this gruesome mayhem.
Btw, that stretch of PCH in Malibu is deadly. Lots of people killed there over the years.
I always said anybody in favor of the 55 mph speed limit should have to drive across Kansas,
Reason #211 why I’ll never live in Kalifornia.
Happa haoli?
Very sad. The kid was having a blast racing on a beautiful street along the beach. Plowed into innocent people and now spends many years in jail. Moral of the story: race on a track, like a Willow Springs near Tehachapi, CA, or race on a computer game, like Forza Motorsports.
He needs to spend 4 lifetimes in prison.
C’mon. Not going to happen. There are probably a half million in the LA area (that means all of S.CA) who’ll peddle down every chance they get and they’re certainly not going to drive all the way to Tehachapi to do so.
In the LA area it’s became almost routine to see fatal/serious collisions/pedestrians runover, in parking lots.
According to the computer that was checked from his vehicle, his top speed was not 104, but was 70 at best.
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What was the time frame of velocity recording?
That car has been over 70 for sure, at some time. Probably a couple of days ago, merging onto the freeway.
Or, is the 70 the impact velocity? And there could have been a 104 a little before that?
Kraut says he checked all the local Ring cameras (and the cops didn’t). Can you calculate a speed from the frame rate of them?
That’s Jan & Dean, dude.
I used to have a copy of Jan and Dean Meet Batman when I was a kid. Wish I still had it.
The real reason is that the roads try to follow property lines, going along the edges of a farmer's fields, rather than dividing the property.
When you try to impose perfectly square farm fields on a spherical earth, the property lines do not ever match up exactly. Over short distances the deviation is small, but over long distances, like a road, you need to have a jog every so often.
Just adding what I had read from the article. Accident investigations are not my field of expertise to be quite honest. But I found the statement in the article worth bringing forth. Gascón is not exactly know for harsh responses against these types of cases. If the statement is fact, then perhaps Gascón may be being overzealous for a reason not overtly obvious. 😋 👍
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