Posted on 12/18/2023 7:15:08 AM PST by lowbridge
Two men accused of racing on a public highway in western Pennsylvania are facing charges in a crash involving a school van that left a teenage girl dead.
The crash also sent three other juveniles and two critically injured adults — including one of the defendants — to hospitals.
Allegheny County police said the Serra Catholic High School van was trying to make a left turn when it was struck by a northbound sedan on Sept. 20 in Dravosburg.
The medical examiner’s office said 15-year-old Samantha Lee Kalkbrenner died at the scene.
Authorities said three of the four students in the van, including Kalkbrenner, were ejected and the van driver also was seriously injured.
William Soliday II, 43, of Irwin, whose car struck the van, is charged with criminal homicide, vehicular homicide, and multiple counts of aggravated assault and reckless endangering, authorities said.
Andrew Voigt, 37, of Pittsburgh, whose vehicle entered the intersection moments after the crash, is charged with accidents involving death or injury and reckless endangering, authorities said.
Both men, who worked at the same place nearby, are charged with racing on highways.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala said authorities believe the two drivers were racing and that the vehicle had been turned “into a deadly weapon.”
Investigators said the first car is believed to have been traveling more than 100 mph just before the crash and the second vehicle was about two seconds behind.
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Two men accused of racing on a public highway in western Pennsylvania that left a teenage girl dead, are facing charges in a crash involving a school van. The school van did not kill the teenage girl.
This is why some people should not be allowed to drive.
I see this death as premeditated murder.
Throw the proverbial book at them.
Two guys with tiny units trying to prove how manly they were
Huge problem where I life in So Cal - there is a long, straight roadway with few lights near where I live - that are mostly green overnight - so idiots get on there and race at speeds of up to 100 mph. These are not professional - or even very good - drivers.
In 2021, three teens were killed when a speeding car t-boned their car and split it in half, a fourth was critically injured:
“A 19-year-old and an unidentified 17-year-old were both arrested on suspicion of three counts each of murder and one count each of reckless driving.”
Something similar happened around here a few years ago, but it wasn’t racing, it was just joyriding. A moron in a modded Mustang rear ended a small SUV and killed a little girl and put her grandmother in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. This was the day before Thanksgiving. The perp spent years in jail, but should have been executed.
The same applies to the guy in the article.
A few years ago around Ontario CA I
think, 5 teen boys were killed in a car
being driven 100mph or so; at one point
one texted YOLO (You Only Live Once)
Time magazine 2012—the teen texted
“drunk AF (as f-—), 120 (mph)
YOLO”
>>Look, the dangers of texting while driving are well-documented. It was only earlier this year that a Texas college student texted about needing to stop texting lest he die in a car accident right before he drove himself off a cliff. Miraculously, he survived.
21-year-old Ervin McKinness wasn’t as lucky.
McKinness, an aspiring rapper from Southern California, was also on his phone prior to the fatal car crash that killed him and four of his friends over Labor Day weekend in Ontario, Calif. The 2005 Nissan Sentra, the San Bernardino County Sun reports, ran a red light and crashed into a wall.
Just minutes before the crash, at 1:19 a.m. on Sept
The tweeter and the driver were
both aspiring rappers
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202399/amp/Ervin-McKinness-Rapper-Inkyy-Jewelz-tweets-YOLO-moments-dying-fiery-DUI-crash.html
Both of these guys are practically middle-aged. I guess they never outgrew being 16 year-olds.
A tragedy to be sure, but I can't keep from wondering if seatbelts would've helped.
Speaking as a very much retired track racer, I want to tell these fools that “no matter how fast you THINK you’re going on the streets, you’re not going very fast. Because if you ARE going racing speeds, your lifespan is about five minutes”. These idiots just proved it, at the cost of innocent lives. I hope the perp’s injuries are painfully disabling for the rest of his useless life.
Guarantee you that both of these knuckle-draggers thought they had the right of way.
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