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A motorcycle accident on July 8 resulted in a single fatality. Heath Sagan, 23, of Willits, was driving his Yamaha R1 north on Aaron Cool Drive in Cool at 1:40 a.m. when he turned off onto a dirt embankment, CHP Officer Dan Stark said. “He hit a tree head on, was ejected and hit the [...]
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — The Avoid the 6 El Dorado County DUI Task Force has announced it will join nearly 10,000 other law enforcement agencies nationwide in support of an intensive crackdown on impaired driving from Aug. 19 to Sept. 5, known as “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.” Drunken driving checkpoints, DUI task force deployments [...]
All things considered, the 2011 Fourth of July weekend was a relatively safe one for El Dorado County motorists. Placerville area California Highway Patrol officer Dan Stark said the three day span of Saturday through Monday yielded 13 crashes and no fatalities. “We managed to avoid the worst-case scenario,” he said. Stark said there were [...]
By Jim RatajczakDemocrat staff writerTwo separate car accidents recently led to two motorist deaths in El Dorado County.The first occurred 10 a.m. on Oct. 16 on Latrobe Road, north of Sun Ridge Meadows, said California Highway Patrol officer Dan Stark.Chuong Van Pham, 42, of El Dorado Hills, was driving northbound on Latrobe on a Honda [...]
Democrat staff writer Melissa Nichols appeared back in court Monday morning, coming one step closer to learning her ultimate sentence from a 2008 accident that claimed the life of her ex-boyfriend. Nichols accepted a proposal from the El Dorado County District AttorneyÕs Office that will allow her to forego a retrial of the manslaughter charge. [...]
Democrat staff writer Deputy public defender David Cramer laid out his defense this week for client Melissa Nichols, accused of fatally hitting her ex-boyfriend in a 2008 collision on Carson Road. Nichols, 25, is accused of gross vehicular manslaughter and DUI causing injury. Cramer called to the stand an accident reconstruction expert who testified the [...]
Democrat staff writer The jury trial of Melissa Nichols began Wednesday. The 25-year-old woman is accused of fatally hitting her ex-boyfriend with her car on Carson Road, as he traveled the other direction on his motorcycle. Nichols is charged with gross vehicular manslaughter and DUI causing injury. Prosecutor Gloria Mas in her opening statement said [...]
Democrat staff writer The trial of Melissa Nichols began Wednesday, the 25-year-old woman accused of fatally hitting her ex-boyfriend with her car on Carson Road in Camino, as he traveled the other direction on his motorcycle. Nichols is charged with gross vehicular manslaughter and DUI causing injury. Prosecutor Gloria Mas in her opening statement to [...]