Posted on 07/02/2011 4:25:17 PM PDT by george76
Amarillo, Texas --State police investigators recommended that a Colorado senator be charged with criminally negligent homicide, tampering with physical evidence and injury to a child in a crash that killed a pregnant Amarillo woman..
A grand jury declined to charge Sen. Suzanne Williams. Troopers then cited Williams on suspicion of having an unsecured passenger under 17, having a child under 8 unsecured by a safety seat system and driving on the wrong side of the highway.
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Williams' son, Todd Williams, and his 3-year-old son were ejected from the vehicle. They were seriously injured.
"While on scene Suzanne (Williams) told me that no one had been ejected from her vehicle and that everyone was extracted from the vehicle by rescue," a state trooper said in an offense report obtained by the newspaper. "Suzanne failed to inform me of the truth of the events that had taken place before anyone arrived on scene."
Investigators determined that Williams picked up her 3-year-old grandson from the highway and placed him in a child safety seat inside her car before emergency help arrived.
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The case garnered national attention in part because Williams is a staunch advocate of child-restraint laws in Colorado, but DPS investigators said none of Williams' passengers were buckled up.
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Keep reading the thread.
I wonder if she lost her position on the Transportation Committee here in CO?
http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/Senate/members/stransportation.htm
This page last updated on 01/13/2011 11:47:12
Thanks. Just amazing. If I remember right she was a major player in our seat belt laws.
Once more, being a Democrat means never having to say you’re sorry.
It will be interesting to see what she and her opponent have to say for her next election.
Hi Squantos, She should ahve been arrested that night. DPS played nice with her.
We had a kid driving at high speed on Coulter and he ran a light with the result being a dead passenger. He was arrested by the APD. That happened the week before. She made sure they knew she was a Colorado senator.
Thanks for the update ping. Doesn’t seem like she was treated like the rest of us would have been. Sad story for the person that she killed.
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