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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The ACLU calls texting while driving a victimless crime?
Learn something new every day!
I just want to see what he was texting.
Probably embarassing pleas to ex-girlfriends.
Well, you’ve proven that even a monkey can hit two keys on the keyboard.
See Post #2
The strongest drugs this guy was on are already legal :P
“When you’re sober, you’ll modify your behavior for self-protection.”
I don’t know, the stats on sober people crashing while texting doesn’t really seem to back that up.
Give me a few million years and I might produce the collected works of Shakespeare!
Nope.
Entropy will get you and you’ll be down to pounding out “llllllll”.
Entropy? I like you already. (check the tagline).
I agree. Where I differ with you, is that most of the stats would probably reveal someone making a few texts, then making a mistake to cause the accident. They may have only texted a few times.
This guy was observed driving for miles going every which way.
This isn’t something I’ve got a burden on, so I’m not opposed to your view on it. You could be more right than I think.
Entropy doesn’t really apply to life on earth, since the earth is not a closed system. Back to phys 101 for you!
Back to Research 101 for you!
Driver in deadly church bus crash jailed on charges of intoxication manslaughter
Perp could get out on bond. I won't print what I'm thinking.
It’s a shame he’s been free all these many weeks since he killed those people.
I hope he’s locked up for 20 years or more.
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