Posted on 03/13/2007 6:35:37 PM PDT by Libloather
Winston-Salem News Co-Anchor Charged After Fatal Wreck
Posted: Mar. 12, 2007
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A television news co-anchor was charged with driving while impaired following a wreck that resulted in the death of a pedestrian.
Tolly Glenn Carr, 32, of Greensboro, was charged early Sunday after his pickup truck ran off a street, along a sidewalk and collided with a building.
Casey Ryan Bokhoven, 26, of Winston-Salem, died at the accident scene, police said.
Carr refused to take a breath alcohol test and was released on a written promise to come to court April 2, police said.
Carr was treated for a minor injury. Fjola Ingvadottir Wilson, 33, another WXII employee who was a passenger in Carr's 1997 Ford truck, was admitted to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
A search warrant issued after the 3:40 a.m. accident said Carr told police he had consumed alcohol earlier that evening. The warrant also said Carr didn't pass a field sobriety test and that the strong odor of alcohol was detected on Carr.
A witness said he heard a vehicle "gunning down the road going really fast" before the wreck. Andrew Rodgers also said he saw a body under the rear wheel when he went to help Carr and his passenger.
"All of us at WXII are devastated by this terrible tragedy," Hank Price, the president and general manager of WXII, said in a statement.
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I have no idea what's going on with that. He wasn't a "main" anchor for the station. Mornings & some fill in spots. Might be racial. It is Winston afterall. But it's more likely to be some connections of some type here. He probably knows somebody. He didn't knock down a stop sign. Somebody is dead. The written promise to appear makes no sense at all.
This is sickening. Carr's innocent victim should be in people's prayers, not the famous homicidal drunk.
Libloather's got it right. I've watched Tolly Carr grow professionally over the years...but he deserves no more pity than any average Joe that would have committed the same crime. He took a life, & from all accounts I've read (most coming from Casey's family & friends)...Tolly was a belligerent drunk that night....refused the taxi, chucked out of a couple bars...refused help at the scene & argued w/ people about calling 9-1-1. My pity for him is gone & is only growing immensely for Casey's family. I certainly can't blame them for their anger. What a waste of a promising life!
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