A man from York County has just pled guilty in front of a Circuit Cour
t Judge after he and his girlfriend got into a car accident after the defendant consumed drugs and alcohol.
The reports indicate that on the day of the incident, the defendant had consumed multiple “marijuana joints” and alcoholic drinks before he put himself behind the wheel of his girlfriend’s car.
The defendant is 20 years old, and his girlfriend was 18 years old at the time of her death. They both were graduates of Clover High.
On the day of the accident, the couple was travelling with two other friends that night, to see a site in Blacksburg that is supposedly “haunted.”
After the friends had all visited the site, they were en route back to York County, when the 20-year-old driver/defendant attempted to over-correct his vehicle while speeding around a sharp curve. It was reported that he was travelling at least 20 miles over the speed limit at the time of the incident.
He was driving his girlfriend 1996 Infinity, which couldn’t handle the curved road at such an accelerated speed. The over-correction caused the vehicle to jerk to the right side of the road, where the car subsequently slammed into five trees, knocking two of them out of their roots.
The driver, his girlfriend, and the two other passengers were all thrown from the vehicle, which had “helicoptered” on the trunk of the car as the car stood upright. It was this spin that propelled the vehicle into the trees.
Everyone was promptly taken to the hospital. The girlfriend, who was riding in the front passenger seat, was critically injured, and passed away soon after she arrived at the hospital.
The defendant was charged when he left from the hospital with a compilation of charges, totalling a possible 55 years in prison. He subsequently pled guilty to felony driving under the influence of alcohol, which resulted in death, in addition to two counts of driving under the influence resulting in great bodily injury( for the other two passengers in the vehicle at the time of the accident.)
