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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Man charged in multiple crashes

David Ramos kept ambulance drivers and tow truck operators plenty busy in Kensington on Sunday.
Police said Ramos, 30, injured a dozen people — including a pregnant woman — and smashed into eight vehicles when he lost control of his car while driving at 80 mph. near C and Tioga streets at about 2:30 p.m.
By the time he finished bouncing around like a human pinball, Ramos’ red Mitsubishi Eclipse was on its roof and four other cars were totaled, police said.
Ramos, of Thayer Street near G, was charged with aggravated assault, criminal mischief, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and driving without a license, said Officer Jillian Russell, a police spokeswoman.
Russell said that Ramos was not intoxicated during his multiple crashes.
The pregnant woman was among 10 other drivers and passengers who were treated at area hospitals and released.
Two other women injured during the multiple crashes, however, did not fare as well.
One victim, whose name was not released, was listed in critical condition yesterday at Hahnemann University Hospital with a broken right femur and broken right ankle, Russell said.
The other victim, who also was not identified, was in critical condition at Temple University with a broken wrist, broken ankle and lacerated spleen.
Posted by David Gambacorta @ 12:12 AM  Permalink | 2 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:41 AM, 04/21/2009
    Ramos was not intoxicated on anything? There was a full tox screen done? Because the witnesses in the news footage stated he was incoherent, not making any sense, unaware of his surroundings.
    — CleanupPhilly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:52 AM, 04/21/2009
    is he an illegal? Because in NJ teen drivers are branded but not illegals.
    — jersey girl


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Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.

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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.

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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.

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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.

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