Posted on 03/25/2024 6:06:01 PM PDT by lowbridge
An 18-year-old motorist is facing homicide charges for the deaths of a Washington state mother and three of the kids she was ushering around after he allegedly drove his Audi A4 more than 100 miles per hour into their minivan, prosecutors said.
Chase Daniel Jones is accused of killing the 38-year-old mom Andrea Hudson as well as Boyd Buster Brown, 12, and sisters Matilda Wilcoxson, 13, and Eloise Wilcoxson, 12, when he barreled into their vehicle, pushing it into another two cars on the road, officials said.
Two of Hudson’s children who were also in the minivan were hospitalized and remain in intensive care.
Jones — who was badly injured — allegedly blew through a red light at an intersection where the crash happened on Tuesday in the community of Fairwood, a King County sheriff’s official said in a police report obtained by the Seattle Times.
Jones was driving as fast as 112 mph with no signs of braking on a road where the speed limit is 40 mph, authorities alleged.
He was also seen weaving in and out of traffic leading up to the deadly incident, according to the police report that cited witnesses.
The teen bought the Audi a month ago after totaling two other vehicles in less than a year in wrecks caused by speeding, King County prosecutors said, according to mynorthwest.com.
Jones was charged with four counts of vehicular homicide, two counts of vehicular assault and reckless driving, Fox 13 reported.
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Not really. Such incidents seem disproportionately caused by rich kids.
If we were not given his name or race —then we would know that the homicide driver was either black or illegal.
40 years for the ADULT driver and not a day less.
Rest in the peace to the poor woman and the kids. A vast, preventable tragedy...
bkmk
So are you against rich people, or white people, or what? My children were rich white kids and they were well behaved and turned out great.
He totalled TWO other cars in the past year while speeding, and now is driving a very nice and relatively expensive Audi. Sounds like affluenza to me.
Horrible
😞😟
Good for you. Have a cookie. But not all rich white kids have good parents. Or rich black kids for that matter.
Probably not. The families from his neighborhood tend to be conservative and wealthy, not liberal and wealthy.
Well, perhaps the hot head is now too damaged to ever drive again.
Prayers up to the families who lost loved ones.
Do you have a source for that?
Not any more!
That’s where I grew up. I’ve been through that intersection thousands of times.
How many parents would put the kid in ANOTHER brand new car AFTER totaling 2 cars in less than a year from speeding?? The RICH part here is very much a part of the story, a middle class kid would NEVER have received 3 cars in less than a year!!
I read the same exact comment on X was that you?
Comment by the families found here.
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/renton-deadly-crash-victim-families
He’s against driving 112 mph in a 40 mph zone.
The thinking is the kid never had to exercise self discipline or face consequences because daddy was rich.
OMG that damage to that mini van is HORRIBLE!!
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