Woman charged in fatal 370z crash caught on dash cam

JARblue

In Austin, a law recently went into effect prohibiting cell phone use (without hands-free) during driving. And now, instead of everyone holding their phone up by the steering wheel so they can occasionally glance at the road, they hold their phones in their laps so cops can't see them and just don't bother to look at the road at all. Awesome

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Zbrah

Genius!

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1087

Sure...I don't have any video of your successful accident avoids, however in this particular accident there is a video available, sadly she did everything wrong ( not decreasing speed at all and swerve to the left not to the right).

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37zeroZ

So your the judge, jury, and executioner. Ok, I'll be sure to tell my lawyer to exclude you from any of my trials.

I'm not saying that the Z driver is completely innocent, but the van driver contributed to the accident by not yielding to oncoming traffic. Both are at fault which will result in the Z driver getting probation at most. As I stated, this case is all emotional driven by the DA charge of manslaughter.

Jordo!

I'm confused -- who hit whom?

The girl in the Z was obviously speeding, (at least relative to other drivers), but it looked like the van t-boned the Z.

Did the girl in the Z run a stop sign or something or am I not following the vid properly?

EDIT: okay, so the van driver didn't yield, and technically, they are both at some degree of fault, but you can't prosecute someone who is deceased, so the state decided to nail the survivor to the wall...

Jeez... that's rough. My sympathies to everyone on this one.

As to the cell phone thing, it has nothing to do with having hands free or not, it's all about cognitive load and divided attention -- holding a conversation commands a lot of it, so it does tend to increase error rates (in this case, fatally). Texting while driving is just impossible to do without some added error because it consumes a lot of executive function as well as ties up your hands.

Check your phone briefly at red lights only, put away when green, eyes on the road -- problem solved.

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JC-Nismo

The evidence supports all my views!!! She pulled into on coming traffic, I don't care how you look at it, speeding or not, facts are facts. Now if she was sitting at the stop sign or the Z blew through a stop sign, then you have a solid case, but in this situation you don't. For instance, if a life wasn't lost and this was a clear case of an car accident WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD BE AT FAULT??? I'll tell you what, pull your car out into traffic and get your bumper dented and tell me what your insurance company tells you if a driver was doing 45 in a 25 and clipped your front end. If a semi is doing 85 in a 65 and your merging on to the highway and get rear ended, who's fault is that??? Like I said in my 1st post, I've seen these type of accidents and all of the drivers who pulled into oncoming traffic were at fault and for any drivers that were deemed reckless driving or speeding got tickets for those obstructions............. NOT MANSLAUGHTER!!!

cooltoy

I wonder if there is a way to keep tabs on this case?

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JC-Nismo

I hope so Cool, I would love to know the ending result.

Zbrah

still trying to justify your view even when evidence clearly shows who caused the accident. Like I said the Z shouldn't have been at the point of impact if it was obeying traffic rules.

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Zbrah

And facts are facts indeed. Which you're continuing to deny even as it is as showned "clearly as day" in your words.

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JC-Nismo

Smfh

Z-Girl 12

Leave her in jail the rest of her life. 3 kids left motherless...pisses me off.

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Zbrah

You talk like pulling out in traffic is something uncommon or illegal lol We do it every day! You probably did it yourself today. But when you have a maniac who is zigzagging out of control through the street, at double the speed limit and crashed into you. WHO IS AT FAULT NOW?! (look my cap works too!). And if there is video evidence showing the bastard's reckless driving I can assure you your insurance company, the cops, and anyone who isn't Ray Charles can see who caused that accident.

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1087

Let it die Bro, they don't get it.
They just go by the fact that the law is considering the right of way because the other street has a stop sign. Obviously not too far ahead in time laws will be revise, for cases like this and many others.
They don;t see the reckless driving,zigzagging, and the lack of reflexes from this Z driver, on an emergency situation, if people like to play at least they need to have a plan B, if something goes wrong, accelerates is easy, having skills and brains is something else.

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37zeroZ

I say the same thing....the evidence shows the van driver was reckless pulling out in front of oncoming traffic. Sorry that she had to die, but it seems like the DA wanted to punish someone, so why not the living person who was hit by the van driver.

If the Z driver's lawyer is someone other than a public defender, the Z driver will not serve any jail time. However, if council is a public defender expect a plea deal for a short jail sentence.