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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.

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Posted 10:27 AM, 11/02/2009
Barbouze
I love how this headline is positioned on page one to make it look like it's related to the Coast Guard crash. Same as when they "bundle" bad-cop stories from all over the globe.
Posted 10:39 AM, 11/02/2009
muda345
fry him case closed problem solved
Posted 10:42 AM, 11/02/2009
TomSmith
Sad how it's always the drunk druggie that survives. He should do the right thing and eat a bullet
Posted 11:11 AM, 11/02/2009
2012 ~ Ron Paul
Pot wasn't a factor in this crash, alcohal was.
Posted 11:16 AM, 11/02/2009
sillybilly
Now I understand why some people don't see a problem with texting while driving, they are stoned.
Posted 11:24 AM, 11/02/2009
sdevault
If anything, Pot causes an increase in cautiousness and does not impare driving skills in any way, thus ROn Paul was correct in saying the booze caused the crash...i would add the texting was a factor too.
Posted 11:45 AM, 11/02/2009
TomSmith
Hey Ron, take a remedial reading class "the defendant's blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit, he tested positive for marijuana" The positive test for a controlled substance makes it a material factor.
Posted 11:46 AM, 11/02/2009
TomSmith
"Pot causes an increase in cautiousness and does not impare driving skills in any way" LOL.. Are you 12 or what?
Posted 11:48 AM, 11/02/2009
yehthatsrite
get a bluetooth and stop texting. i see people swerving on the highway on a daily basis from either dialing or texting. tragic story.
Posted 12:02 PM, 11/02/2009
sdevault
Tom - Try to peel yourself from the keyboard in your mother's basement and join the real world. "LOL", and you want to know if i'm 12...on second thought, maybe you should stay down there. Good luck with World of Warcraft, thats all the reality you can handle. Oh, and thanks for your legal breakdown to Ron regarding the accused crimes as if wasn't painfully obvious already. If YOU took a remedial reading class you would understand that Ron simply meant that Pot did not play a role in causing the crash. Of course its a "material factor", in court, stupid.
Posted 05:02 PM, 11/02/2009
BADMOTHERUPPER
The problem with the weed is that he could have puffed a J 2 weeks ago and it still shows up in the blood work. IDK if there is a way to determine if he was high on THC @ the time of the incident? Anyone?
Posted 05:48 PM, 11/02/2009
TomSmith
I know what Ron meant. That's the sad part. Hopefully he gets the chair or a long long time in prison. Give him some weed for prison so he can be more alert to the predators he'll be hanging with. Low lifes
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