Nev. trooper drove 113 mph to get home for dinner, killed 4

[kurth]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper was charged Monday with nine felony counts of reckless driving and involuntary manslaughter in a crash that killed four people. Trooper Joshua Corcran was driving 113 mph on Interstate 15 on Feb. 19, hurrying to get home for dinner and an online history test when his patrol car slammed into a Cadillac going 52 mph, killing the driver and three passengers, police said.

Charging Corcran with "driving at such a rate of speed to endanger" others, Clark County Dist. Atty. David Roger opted to add felony manslaughter charges to the four charges of felony reckless driving resulting in death that police had recommended. Last week, police also recommended that Corcran be charged with one count of reckless driving resulting in substantial bodily harm and Roger concurred. Corcran told his supervisor after the crash that "he was making a lane change and all of a sudden that car was right there in front of him and the next thing he knew the air bag was hitting him," according to a police report. Blame for the accident "can be solely attributed to Joshua Corcran," the report said.

Three backseat passengers of the 1988 Deville were ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. Sixteen-year-old Cecilia Lopez Cruz, four months pregnant, was the only survivor in the Cadillac. She had injuries to her pelvis, torso and head. Her pregnancy was not affected. The driver of the Cadillac, Cruz's 21-year-old husband Victor De La Cruz-De Leon, was killed. Also killed were Cruz's 21-year-old sister, Reymunda Lopez-Vazquez; the sister's step-uncle, 42-year-old Jose Sanchez Lopez; and a 19-year-old family friend, Jose Roberto Mejia Lang. Authorities said all were illegal immigrants from Mexico who were living and working in the St. George area of southwest Utah.

Police were able to determine Corcran's speed through an analysis of the powertrain control module provided by Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. His vehicle was traveling 119 mph before slowing somewhat in the last 10 seconds before the crash.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-trooper21mar21,1,4610847.story

[Beetwasher]

1. Musta Been Meatloaf Night

Sorry, this is a horrible story and that's not really funny, but I'm just an asshole like that.

[standup]

4. "Where ARE you, Josh? You're late for dinner AGAIN!!!!!!", she yelled

CRASHHHHH!!!!!!!!

[MADem]

2. Jesus H. Christ!!! What, he only gets pot roast once a decade, or what???

[rinsd]

3. Driving on the 15 in Nevada is scary

You can go from 90 to 40 real damn quick and most of the people in CA and NV have little idea how to drive in changing conditions or anticipate that they may have to slow down.

[rkc3]

5. His wife must be one hell of a cook.

He'll spend two years in jail max -- if any.

I was in a 5 car pile up on the PA turnpike three years ago. The defendant, high on coke, driving without a license or insurance crossed through the emergency opening in the jersey barrier and killed the guy in front of me. We hit both cars and ended up in a ditch after getting rear ended.

The driver got about 13 months for his efforts.

I will say this - in a head-on collision air bags are amazing.

[mattclearing]

13. Wow. That's a close one.

I bet you felt pretty good to walk away from that.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Maximum speed for donuts is 90. Dinner has no limit, however.

[SPKrazy]

7. Probably Late Coming Back From Girlfriend's House n/t

[reichstag911]

8. Did he have bible study that night, too?

Wouldn't want to miss the Lord's teachin's 'bout the 'pocalypse.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. nice...

gotta little problem with Christianity, huh? And people wonder how it is said that liberals are 'anti-christian'...wow...I think I have solved it!

sP

[reichstag911]

10. Not Christianity, per se,...

...but thirteen years of Catholic school, and intimate familiarity with the cops, make me recognize that rarely are our authority figures worthy of the power they have over us. Also, the fact that NV went Bush opens up a whole 'nother level of distaste for this uniformed scumbag (yeah, I'm assuming, but so what). The majority of the cops I know like Bush's firmness, his steadfastness, his...tax cuts -- they're too dumb to recognize the man's a cardboard cutout.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

11. your assumption and presentation thereof

is exactly why 'liberals are anti-christian.' Thanks...doing the good work...

sP

[mattclearing]

12. Good. I hate it when cops break the law.

I hope he rots.