Booze, pot, texting fatal-crash factors
HARRISBURG - A central Pennsylvania man has been charged with drunken driving and homicide by vehicle in a crash that killed a taxicab driver and one of his passengers last month.
Andrew Denezza, 30, is also charged with aggravated assault by vehicle while driving under the influence and other counts. Harrisburg police chief Charles Kellar says the defendant's blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit, he tested positive for marijuana and he told officers that he was texting at the time of the crash.
Police say Denezza's car crossed the center line on Harrisburg's Market Street Bridge at about 2:35 a.m. on Oct. 3 and hit the taxi head-on. The crash killed driver Michael Amissah, 34, of Harrisburg and passenger Kristin Bowser, 28, of Camp Hill. Her husband, Christopher Bowser, 31, was injured. Denezza was treated and released.



