The South Dakota Department of Public Safety (DPS) on Tuesday released audio of the 911 call South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg had made on the night of September 12 after he fatally struck a pedestrian named Joe Boever with his car.
Season two of Fargo began just this way except the victim was hanging out of the windshield and the woman drove home and parked him in her garage. Strange things happen in the Dakotas and on tv.
I really need to ask. If you hit something with your car hard enough to kill it, whether it’s a deer or a human, how do you not know what you hit? It was IN FRONT OF YOU ON THE ROAD. You had to drive up on it. Even a quick last-second flash will tell you if it’s a deer or human. Those are not easily confused.
This stinks to high heaven. Why hasn’t he been charged yet? Not even “involuntary manslaughter”??
I imagine that the feel and sound of hitting a deer with your car would be very different from the feel and sound of hitting a man with your car. Especially if you got out of your car and asked it or him if it or him needed help.
Department of Public Safety Secretary Craig Price … told reporters that Ravnsborg’s blood alcohol content was zero [when tested around 1:30 PM the day after the collision].
This BAC reading is meaningless. The accident took place at 10:30 PM and the test was taken about 15 hours later. BAC drops 0.016% on average per hour after drinking has stopped. Ravnsborg could have had a BAC of 0.24% (worst case) at the time of the accident.
Price probably knows it’s meaningless. He’s just trying to make the AG look good.
The article doesn’t mention anything DPS Safety Secretary Price might have said about skid marks or the results of inspecting the AG’s cell phone. To me, those are much more relevant than a 15-hour delayed blood alcohol test that proves exactly nothing.
Not everything has to do with drinking. Lots of accidents stem from speeding and distracted driving.
I think it’s a given that he was flying pretty fast on that desolate highway. He always has the built-in excuse that he’s the AG and won’t be ticketed for speeding.