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BREAKING: Final Ruling Has Just Been Announced On Fatal Car Crash Involving Jenner
Looks like Bruce Jenner will not have to face justice for the deadly car crash he is responsible for. Authorities have now officially declined to prosecute him for the incident.
Prosecutors said that they didn’t feel they could definitively prove negligence, saying that based on the facts, they “cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that suspect’s conduct was unreasonable.”
“We believed from the start that a thorough and objective investigation would clear Caitlyn of any criminal wrongdoing,” Blair Berk, Jenner’s attorney, said in a statement. “We are heartened the district attorney has agreed that even a misdemeanor charge would be inappropriate. A traffic accident, however devastating and heartbreaking when a life is lost, is not necessarily a criminal matter.”
Last February, when he was still carrying on as Bruce–a member of the Kardashian clan and a reality TV show star–Jenner caused a multi-car accident that pushed a stopped car into oncoming traffic, killing the driver.
The 65-year-old Jenner was driving a Cadillac Escalade and hauling an off-road vehicle when he came upon some cars stopped ahead. He did not hit his breaks soon enough, though, and plowed into them. The accident caused one of the cars ahead of him to be pushed out into oncoming traffic.
The car that was pushed was being driven by 69-year-old Kim Howe. Her car was struck head on by a Humvee. The woman was killed in the ensuing collision.
Investigators initially found that Jenner was driving “unsafely for the prevailing road conditions”; he faced up to a year in county jail if convicted of vehicular manslaughter. But months later, the charges were left unresolved until now.
All this occurred months before Jenner came out as transgender.
The family of Ms. Howe blasted the TV star and have filed a civil lawsuit against him.
“Our clients are moving forward with this lawsuit to give a voice to Kim Howe who was killed as a result of Ms. Jenner’s actions,” Howe family attorneys Jeffrey Wolf and John Sheehan said in a statement in July. “Ms. Jenner has failed to appear for her noticed deposition, so we are surprised to hear that she intends to cooperate in every way possible with this investigation. We encourage Ms. Jenner to be that role model that she seeks to be. That means accepting responsibility for what she has done.”
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-final-ruling-has-just-been-announced-on-fatal-car-crash-involving-jenner/
