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WAILUKU -- A retired
Leland Scott Jr., 54, of Lahaina, pleaded no contest to two reduced charges of second-degree criminal property damage.
Deputy Prosecutor Glenn Pesenhofer said Scott's Ford Bronco
bumped the back of a van carrying six visitors from
After the van pulled to the side of the road, Scott passed it and then intentionally
rammed the back of a convertible carrying a honeymooning couple from
Scott admitted that his actions were "impaired and inappropriate." But he told Circuit Judge Joseph Cardoza on Wednesday that he was just trying to pass the vehicles and that the incidents were "extremely overexaggerated."
Defense attorney Steven Songstad said Scott had been taking a prescription painkiller for a neck injury he received while serving as a police officer.
He also described Scott's actions as "an anomaly, an aberration," and said Scott had written letters of apology to the victims.
But Cardoza said he had trouble agreeing with Scott's description of the events, citing statements from witnesses that they had tried to let Scott's vehicle pass.
"You don't get people to pull off the side of the road by hitting them from behind," Cardoza said.
Original article found here:
http://starbulletin.com/2003/09/13/news/story10.html
By JOE ATKINSON, Courier & Press staff
Richard A. Burnham, 41, was driving his 2003 International
semi-tractor south on U.S. 41 around
As the three vehicles approached the stop light at
"At this point, we don't know exactly what sparked his
behavior," said Indiana State Police Sgt. Todd Ringle.
"There was no type of interaction between the two drivers prior to Burnham ramming
the rear of the (Silverado) -- we can only assume why he got angry."
The Silverado's driver also exited his vehicle -- to check for damage
from the accident, Ringle said. But Burnham allegedly walked
up to the Silverado's driver and used his chest to push the man backward.
As soon as the alleged assault occurred, the Silverado's driver
identified himself as an undercover Indiana State Police officer, Ringle
said.
"He told (Burnham) to get on the ground, and Burnham
refused," Ringle said. "That's when the other
officer (the driver of the Ford Ranger) noticed what was going on in her rearview mirror,
got out and identified herself."
The second undercover officer -- who had been driving the vehicle in
front of the Silverado -- pointed her service revolver at Burnham and also ordered him
onto the ground.
This time, Ringle said, Burnham complied.
"Basically, once he was ordered to get on the ground at gunpoint,
he complied," Ringle said. "We were able to handcuff
him and take him to the Vanderburgh County Jail."
Burnham remained in the jail Friday night on a $500 cash bond. He was
accused of criminal recklessness, resisting law enforcement, and battery -- all
misdemeanors.
He could not be accused of battery on an officer -- a more serious
charge -- because he did not know that the other driver was an undercover officer when the
push occurred, Ringle said.
Burnham
is scheduled to make his initial appearance in court at
Original article found here:
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OLIVE - Saturday's steady drisize="3le failed to
cool the heated words of Olive residents and local politicians who appeared on a remote
stretch of state Route 28A to protest the closure of
With Olive Town Justice Vincent Barringer,
a fierce opponent of the closure, acting as master of ceremonies, speaker after speaker
ascended to a makeshift stage on the bed of a pickup truck to denounce the city's
Department of Environmental Protection, which closed the road, and, especially, the
agency's chief of police, Ed Welch, who showed up in street clothes to listen to the
grievances.
"When you came up here, we thought we finally had someone from
the city we could talk to," Barringer told Welch.
"But it's the same old game."
Saturday's protest attracted between 75 and 100 people. It marked the
culmination of months of dissatisfaction with the road closure, which was recommended by
Welch in March following a "vulnerability assessment" by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. The federal agency determined the dam was vulnerable to a
attack by terrorists using a vehicle and explosives.
In a telephone interview after the protest, Welch said that, in light
of the assessment, which examined hundreds of terrorist attack scenarios, and the nation's
elevated terror alert level, he could not, in good conscience, support reopening the road.
"I would be remiss in my duty to protect the city's water supply
as well, as the residents up here, if I didn't take every necessary step to keep the
reservoir safe," he said.
Welch said similar measures are in effect at all 19 reservoirs in
Opponents of the closure say they doubt a car bomb could destroy the
massive dam, which was built between 1906 and 1916. The reservoir's upper basin was
flooded 90 years ago today, on
Critics of the closure say the detour around
Protest organizer David Rosenbaum read a letter from the Olive Rescue
Squad claiming the detour has added as much as seven minutes to its response time in some
areas and offers a jarring ride for patients as ambulances negotiate the twisting road.
Rosenbaum also blasted city Environmental Protection Commissioner
Christopher O. Ward for characterizing the closure as an inconvenience, rather than a
hazard for local residents.
"(Ward) thinks this is all about drive time," Rosenbaum
said. "He's right, it is about drive time. It's about patients getting to
The Department of Environmental Protection plans to begin repaving and
making other improvements to the detour this week. But Barringer
said the plan is an unacceptable substitute, and he vowed to halt the work by laying down in front of the paving machines if necessary.
While the road closure was the issue of the day, the century-old
resentment of some natives of the hamlets around the reservoir was apparent in protest
signs reading "First Dispossessed, Now Disenfranchised" as well as in some of
the speeches.
"About 100 years ago,
Burkhardt was one of many local
politicians who turned out for the rally. Also present was Ulster County Democratic
Chairman John Parete and his sons, county Legislators Richard,
D-Accord, and Robert, D-Boiceville. Also on hand were Olive
Councilman Bruce LaMonda, County Legislator Robert Wilkins, R-Shokan, and Legislature candidate Peter Kraft, a Democrat from Glenford. Absent from the protest was Olive Supervisor Berndt Leifeld, a fact that fellow Democrat Barringer
asked the crowd to remember on Election Day.
Despite the heated rhetoric, the crowd was peaceful. The only visible
police presence, besides Welch and his driver, were two Department of Environmental
Protection police officers manning a video camera a short distance away. Welch said taping
a protest is standard procedure for the agency.
The police chief, who stood quietly by throughout the protest, left
after about 45 minutes when Olive resident Joseph Tumasian
took the microphone and angrily accused Welch of having him investigated after an Aug. 5
meeting between agency officials and the public. At that meeting, Tumasian
said, he pointed out in detail flaws in the reservoir's security.
Jumping down from the truck bed, Tumasian approached Welch and confronted him directly with angry words. Welch walked away, got into an unmarked sport utility vehicle and left the area.
Original article found here:
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Kemp's eyes are swollen and rimmed with purple bruises.
He has a deep gash on his swollen upper lip and an indentation the shape of a shoe across
the left side of his face.
He has had 12 stitches in the back of his head and has bruises on his back and neck.
Bellville
police have said a docket on attempted murder is to be opened as soon as Kemp has
recovered enough to make a statement.
Kemp,
a bouncer at a Brackenfell nightclub, said he had recognised the driver.
He
alleges that after 9pm at the Old Oak Road stop after the Tyger
Valley turn-off, the motorist and his passenger smashed the car windows, forced him out of
the vehicle - which belongs to his girlfriend Elmarie Smitt - and bludgeoned him with what appeared to be a baseball bat.
Kemp
was heading towards Brackenfell from Goodwood
when a silver Audi appeared behind him on the N1 before the Durbanville turn-off.
According
to Kemp, the motorist had been "sitting on his tail" since the N1.
Once
the motorist passed Kemp, he allegedly moved in front of him, slowed down and refused to
let Kemp pass. An infuriated Kemp stopped behind them when they pulled off at the side of
the road at the Durbanville turn-off.
"I
screamed and told him that it was not necessary to drive so k..
and that he had no right to be on my tail."
"He
was calm and said everything would be OK since I was no longer driving as badly as
before."
"But
when I got back onto the N1 he was again behind me."
"There
was a lot of swearing going on and fingers being shown."
Kemp
claims the motorist had tried to force him off the road, compelling him to take the
When
he was forced to stop at an intersection two men allegedly jumped out of the vehicle.
"The
passenger used the bat to smash my windows."
"They
tried to pull me out of the shattered driver's window, but I was too big so I got out and
grabbed the driver by the chest."
"That
is when the passenger hit me over the head with the bat. I hit the ground."
Kemp
claimed the men had used their feet, fists and the bat during their short assault.
Two
men came to his aid after the occupants of the other car had sped off.
After
being treated at the scene, Kemp went with a friend to the Bellville police station to
file a complaint, but he was too weak to make a full statement and was taken to hospital.
He was discharged on Sunday.
Original article found here:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=79&art_id=vn20030915023204201C797349&set_id=1
A bus driver killed a four-year-old child after he swerved at a motorist who had cut him up and lost control of his double-decker, a court heard today.
Donte Byron was killed
instantly when the number 36 Routemaster ploughed through
railings on to the pavement in a busy shopping area and dragged him under the wheels. The
boy's mother, who was slightly hurt, watched as the bus careered on for 18 metres with her son trapped under the back wheels.
Paul Moses, 27, is accused of causing death by
dangerous driving after showing a "cavalier attitude towards driving his bus" before the the accident, Inner London Crown Court heard.
Describing the accident on Peckham
High Road on 7 August last year, Rebecca Harris for the prosecution said the bus was
waiting at traffic lights when they turned to green and a white van pulled out in in front.
"The prosecution case is that this defendant became
annoyed. Instead of simply moving forward, the prosecution case is that Mr Moses drove his bus to the right towards the rear of the
van." She added that this "aggressive manoeuvring
was intended to intimidate or remonstrate with the driver of the van".
The jury saw a 20-second video in which Moses could be
seen swerving towards the van.
Ms Harris continued: "Having moved the bus to the
right, the defendant needed to steer it back to the left to avoid hitting the van. In his
effort to do so, the defendant over-steered and the bus veered sharply towards the left,
towards the kerb and the pavement. It continued to travel left
and after some seconds hit the kerb and went through the
railings.
"As it did so it bumped into Donte
and his mother. Donte was pulled under the bus and trapped
under the back wheel. He unfortunately died at the scene." The court heard how one
passenger said Moses was driving as if he was in a hurry and failed to halt at bus stops.
The jury also heard that a police examination appeared to
reveal that no effort had been made to apply the brakes or change direction until a few
seconds after the bus had ploughed through the railings.
Bus conductor Emma Boffin
wept in court and said: "The driver came to me with his hands on his head and said,
'Oh my god. Oh my god.' He then walked off and I didn't see him
again. I haven't seen the driver up until now."
Moses, from
The trial continues.
Original article found here:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/6712590?source=Evening%20Standard
New Delhi, September 15: Over 24 hours after the murder of a 22-year-old driver, Raju Bhandari, by a Delhi Police constable, the police version of road rage is getting weaker by the hour as the aggrieved family and transporters seek answers. In fact, the police are themselves conducting a vigilance inquiry and the report will be submitted to the commissioner.
‘‘The constable chasing the truck with a long-range weapon that has been given to him for other reasons itself raises questions. His actions cannot be justified,’’ a senior police officer said.
The eyewitness account of cleaner Diwan — he is in police custody — told to transporters at the Inland Container Depot makes it seem a clear case of police high-handedness as he has alleged that Bhandari refused to pay the constable ‘entry’ money.
Bhandari’s father, Ram Singh, was today at the AIIMS mortuary, numbed by the death of the only earning member of his family. He is paralysed from waist down and has to take care of four children — two daughters aged 16 and 14 and two sons, 6 and 10.
The cleaner reportedly said that as their trailer reached the Anandmai Marg police picket, they had a barricade blocking their way. ‘‘Seeing no policemen around, Bhandari asked Diwan to get down and move the barricade. The constable appeared suddenly and, catching him in the act, started abusing the cleaner. He asked him for entry money,’’ said Ram Prakash, who works at the ICD. The transporters alleged that the constable was drunk.
‘‘The two waited inside the trailer, and when Kumar didn’t come asking for the money, they drove away. However, the constable started following them,’’ Prakash alleged. On reaching the Kaya Maya Empty Yard, where trailers off-load containers, the constable caught up with them and parked his motorcycle in front of the truck.
The road had an incline and Bhandari had kept his feet on the clutch and brake, Diwan told the transporters. ‘‘Kumar hit the windshield a couple of times with his service rifle. There was a heated argument between the two and Bhandari told him that since he was driving within the city, he won’t entry and he had no money either,’’ it was alleged. ‘‘On seeing this, Diwan escaped and hid in the nearby bushes,’’ said Prakash.
The constable then shot the driver. The bullet went through the chest and left through the cabin roof. As Bhandari was hit, he lost control and the trailer hit the motorcycle and another truck.
‘‘Out of a salary of Rs 3500, he used to send Rs 2500 home and slept in the trailer itself. We are small people. No one knows how they will survive now,’’ said Rajinder Singh, a relative.
Original article found here:
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=63235
Brian C. Taylor, 21, was arrested Tuesday at his
mother's
Gallegos' pickup, which had fresh damage on the back,
was found burning three days later in a ravine in nearby
Police later released a recording of a 911 call
Gallegos made just seconds before the attack. A man could be heard accusing Gallegos of
"brake-checking" him -- a term for tapping brakes to get a following car to slow
down. Another man also can be heard on the tape.
On Aug. 27, Jeromy M. Jolley, 21, was arrested on a murder warrant after witnesses said he
was the man on the 911 tape. He remains in the Tarrant County
Jail with bail set at $1 million.
An auto shop worker told police that
The worker told investigators that Jolley later arrived in a 1990s model Nissan Frontier pickup with
extensive front damage.
The worker refused to fix the truck, and Jolley left in it. That truck has not been found, police said.
A few days later,
Original article found here:
http://www.dallasnews.com/localnews/stories/091703dnmetstabbing.5ce90cf.html
After watching two trials and a score of hearings, and after shedding
buckets of tears, the legal process is over for Katie Pemberton of
"I have to go home and say, for this part, justice was
served," said Pemberton after the second man involved in the road-rage incident that
tragic night was sentenced to a year in jail.
But on a personal level there will never be justice, she said.
Pemberton has routinely been in court when the two men who were
involved in the collision that took her daughter's life were in court. The collision
followed a school prom in
The second defendant, Lukasz Pawel Kutek, 22, of Shoreline, was given
the one-year jail term Tuesday after pleading guilty to two driving charges.
"It is a case where Mr. Kutek
apparently had an emotional response to another driver," said Snohomish County
Superior Court Judge Larry McKeeman before he pronounced his
sentence.
Kutek pleaded guilty in July to reckless
driving, a gross misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and agreed to serve a
year in jail. He will be allowed to keep his job working for a property management company
because he will attend the county's work release program beginning Sept. 29
The plea followed a trial for vehicular homicide in which the jury
could not reach a unanimous decision. Jurors were deadlocked 11-1 to convict him of a
felony that would have sent Kutek to a state prison for 1
1/2years or more.
In April, the second man involved in the incident, Allison Arnold, 34,
of
It was
Deputy prosecutor Michael Downes said he
agreed to the gross misdemeanor partly because jurors told him after Kutek's
trial that they thought Kutek should have been charged with a
less serious crime.
"I took that into account" in plea negotiations with
Shoreline defense attorney Mark Vanderveen, Downes told the judge.
Vanderveen emphasized that Kutek had no previous criminal or driving convictions and "is
not predisposed to participate in road rage."
"It was nine or 10 seconds of poor decision-making," Vanderveen said. "It's been hard on him, too. I'm convinced
this had had a lasting impact on this young man."
Kutek had little to say, except to
apologize.
"This was a big tragedy. If I had known what the other driver
would do, I wouldn't have done it," Kutek told the judge.
"All I can say is I'm sorry."
Original article found here:
http://heraldnet.com/Stories/03/9/17/17491374.cfm
Lukasz Kutek will spend a year in jail on a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving. He pleaded guilty to the charge after a jury couldn't reach a verdict in his first trial, on more serious vehicular homicide charges.
Kutek also will be on probation for two years.
The
accident occurred in April 2002, when Kutek cut ahead of
Allison Arnold Jr. on State Route 104 in
Original article found here:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/140008_crash17.html
The
sight of a police car is likely to set a male driver's blood rising, tailgating makes
everyone mad, but something blocking her way is what is almost guaranteed to set a woman
fuming.
After surveying 861 drivers, he is surprised to find that women behind the wheel often
reported higher levels of anger than male drivers.
He says the angriest drivers tend to be young women from urban centres
with few years' experience behind the wheel, but who have done a lot of mileage and tend
to drive fast.
Mr Sullman says the good news is
that anger lessens the older a driver gets.
Original article found here:
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=35305
City of
According to the report, Christopher Chesnic,
20, of
Chesnic told police a Ford Mustang in the adjacent lane sped
up and would not let him merge, the report said.
He was able to merge into the lane. The driver of the Mustang, Ivars
Roberts, 47, of the town of
Roberts allegedly yelled at Chesnic to pull over, and Chesnic allegedly threw water at the side of the Mustang, the report
said.
The road rage continued on the I-94 on-ramp and then on northbound Highway J. Chesnic drove to the Police Department, which is located off Highway
J, to report the incident.
Both men are being cited for disorderly conduct.
In other police reports:
One hurt, cited in crash
One person was injured in an accident Sept. 12 on
Kenneth Mayer, 44, of Milwaukee was driving west on Capitol at about 8 a.m., and just as
he passed Highway SR, his car was rear-ended by a car driven by John Lippold,
47, of N25 W26251 Foxcroft Drive, city of Pewaukee.
Lippold was cited for failure to have a vehicle under control.
He was injured but did not receive medical transport to a hospital.
Deer hit by car
A deer was struck by a car driven by Kathleen Stevens, 59, of
the town of
No injuries or citations were listed.
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