Post by movieliker on Jan 12, 2018 18:39:30 GMT
A man who plowed his truck into parade goers, injuring 30 people, sending 24 to the hospital, was drunk. Pled guilty and got 5 years in prison.
"New Orleans' festive Mardi Gras season was stained eight months ago when Rizzuto plowed head-on into dozens of spectators watching the annual Krewe of Endymion parade near the corner of Orleans and North Carrollton avenues in Mid-City. More than 30 people were believed to have been injured, with 24 hospitalized.
Crash victims ranged in age from 2 to 56, authorities said, and included New Orleans residents, eight out-of-state tourists and an NOPD lieutenant who sustained shoulder and knee injuries as well as a broken leg.
Rizzuto has remained jailed since his arrest, unable to make a bond set at $404,000.
New Orleans police said in court documents that Rizzuto's blood-alcohol content measured at .232 after the crash -- nearly three times the state's legal limit of .08 to operate a motor vehicle."
www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/10/endymion_crash_driver_sentence.html
"New Orleans' festive Mardi Gras season was stained eight months ago when Rizzuto plowed head-on into dozens of spectators watching the annual Krewe of Endymion parade near the corner of Orleans and North Carrollton avenues in Mid-City. More than 30 people were believed to have been injured, with 24 hospitalized.
Crash victims ranged in age from 2 to 56, authorities said, and included New Orleans residents, eight out-of-state tourists and an NOPD lieutenant who sustained shoulder and knee injuries as well as a broken leg.
Rizzuto has remained jailed since his arrest, unable to make a bond set at $404,000.
New Orleans police said in court documents that Rizzuto's blood-alcohol content measured at .232 after the crash -- nearly three times the state's legal limit of .08 to operate a motor vehicle."
www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/10/endymion_crash_driver_sentence.html
