Posted on 04/11/2017 2:06:43 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
UVALDE — Court records released Tuesday bolstered reports that Jack D. Young was texting before crashing his pickup into a small church bus March 29 on U.S. 83, killing 13 people, and also reveal that he had earlier consumed prescription pills and was in possession of marijuana.
The northbound 2007 Dodge pickup driven by Young, 20, of Leakey, crossed the highway’s center line on a curve and hit the bus carrying 14 congregants of the First Baptist Church of New Braunfels home from a retreat. Only one bus passenger survived.
A neighbor later reported that Young had driven that morning to Uvalde to fill drug prescriptions, and a passenger in a vehicle behind Young captured his truck on a video weaving from side to side over several miles before the deadly crash about six miles north of Concan.
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Besides evidence from the motorists' video, Young reported after the crash that he had earlier consumed two pills of Clonazepam — which Young said make him sleepy — and the generic forms of the prescription drugs Ambien and Lexapro, the trooper wrote. An unidentified pharmacist quoted in the affidavit said the drug combination could have impaired a driver by causing drowsiness or sleep.
Hewitt's affidavit also quotes another trooper as saying two intact marijuana cigarettes were recovered from the center console of Young's truck, as well as five partially smoked joints, after the crash.
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Maybe they’ll be able to tell by his texts just how schwasted he was.
Pot on top of the sleeping drug is not a good idea. The cause of this wreck was stupidity. Would people feel better if he was drunk out of his mind?
Texting or not, weaving all over the road like that indicates more going on that just texting.
When you’re sober, you’ll modify your behavior for self-protection.
Will you make a dangerous text or two sober? Sure. Will you do it for miles weaving across other lanes? I don’t think so.
This list of drugs and the possibility he was smoking pot too, wow what a combination of debilitating contributors there. Some of those meds will screw you up if you’re totally sober.
I sure hope they ran a comprehensive blood test, to find out what all the guy had in his system.
If he’s cleared on all substances, he has to be one of the stupidest people around, or possibly a very strong death wish.
Agreed, we shouldn't legalize Clonazepam, Ambien and Lexapro.
They sure as hell wouldn't argue that alcohol should be recriminalized because of it.
It’s “all the above” in a culture that embraces drugs and stupid things like texting
Clonazepam, Ambien and Lexapro
If those were prescribed by a doctor he was severely depressed and probably bi-polar. I’m not sure prescribing all three concurrently is a responsible Rx but I have my doubts.
Patrick and a female Kennedy , IIRC .
A few might - but only if asked and only verbally.
That on top of texting. What a miserable human being. I hope he’s put away for a VERY long time!
...Ping!
Texting isn’t a bad thing, just when it distracts you from what you should be doing instead.
I’ve seen cops do it. Probably stoned.
Drugs only hurt the user, and are a victimless crime ??
That is the libertarian take on this topic.
Gary Johnston, Dr. Rand Paul etc. Who else??
I don't know...was the Cop I saw doing that very thing yesterday stoned enough? With just the mention of the word 'pot' hair catches fire! Hold still, I need a light!
Until the perp’s tox comes back, we don’t know what he was on. Maybe what the perp claims, maybe more. In any case, I think the real problem is going to be TX law. I think the only way the perp serves a long sentence is if the DA charges him with everything the DA can think of and gets consecutive sentences. Penalties for vehicular homicide/manslaughter in TX are not that high.
And I’ve got a question: How the heck does a 20 year old with a drug habit afford a vehicle like that? Where was the perp living, at home? I’ve seen no reportage on the perp’s backround, so I’m very curious.
“Too early in the investigation to assign proximate cause.”
Lolololol
Perhaps, but that would still make being stoned only a secondary cause. Plenty of sober people have the same bad judgement anyway.
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