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Police Ask For Manslaughter Charges In Farmer's Market Crash 10 People Killed, 69 Injured In Tragedy POSTED: 3:10 PM PST December 17, 2003 UPDATED: 5:16 PM PST December 17, 2003 LOS ANGELES -- Santa Monica police will ask the district attorney to bring a manslaughter charge against an 86-year-old man whose car roared through a farmer's market in the beach-front city last summer, killing 10 people. The accident, which also injured 69 people, was the result of unsafe speed and other violations on the part of Russell Weller, Police Chief James T. Butts told reporters outside police headquarters late Wednesday...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- A preliminary California Highway Patrol report on the farmers market accident that killed 10 people says error by the elderly driver was the only possible cause, according to the Los Angeles Times. The first extensive investigation into the July 16 crash rules out mechanical failures and says no objects pressed down on the accelerator as 86-year-old George Russell Weller steered his car straight through the market, said the Times, which obtained a copy of the CHP report. CHP investigators said Weller had his "eyes open, hands on the steering wheel at the 10 o'clock and 2...