GiveSendGo fundraiser for "holdout" juror is up to $313,284
https://www.givesendgo.com/standwithjuror
A far cry from child-murderer Lindsay Clancy's "parents" GoFundMe at
$1,242,220, but the latter fundraiser has been up longer.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-lindsay-clancys-parents
Video shows wrong-way speeding female driver slam into Metro bus at ‘freeway speeds’ - killing 2 (in the crash that NewsChopper4 was covering when it went down in L.A., killing 3 more)
Chilling security camera footage obtained exclusively by KTLA shows the driver of a speeding SUV slamming into the side of a Los Angeles Metro bus Tuesday, killing two passengers and injuring several others.
The crash occurred at about 5 p.m. at the busy intersection of Nordhoff Street and De Soto Avenue in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley.
According to police, Bailee Lynn Rios, 36, was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of De Soto Avenue in a 2004 Ford Expedition when she ran a red light and broadsided the bus, which was traveling eastbound with a green light.
“The impact fully ejected one passenger from the bus and partially ejected a second,” LAPD said in a statement. “Debris from the collision also damaged a blue 2024 Honda CR-V that was stopped, facing northbound.”
The security footage, recorded from across a parking lot and a gas station, shows the SUV speeding into the intersection without any apparent attempt to stop.
“We’re all waiting on the red light on De Soto and off to our left this SUV comes speeding by at freeway speeds," a witness told KTLA. “And there’s no (tire) screeching. She just t-boned the bus. It was the loudest crash you could imagine.”
Police arrested Rios on Wednesday on suspicion of murder. Her bail was set at $4 million. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office will ultimately decide what charges, if any, she will face.
The two people who died in the crash were identified by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office as Gage Weida, 31, and Daniel Castillo, 46. Metro officials initially stated late Tuesday that a third person had died, but that report was later retracted.
News helicopter crashes during live coverage
The tragedy was compounded about two hours later when a news helicopter covering the collision for NBC4 plummeted to the ground and exploded, killing reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw. A third person, 29-year-old Edy Gutierrez Mejia, who was on the ground, also died.
During a Wednesday afternoon news conference, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said they were analyzing audio from the helicopter’s live broadcast that indicated possible engine trouble. Preliminary findings are expected within 30 days, the NTSB said.
Aviation safety expert Jeff Guzzetti said the alarm heard in the helicopter’s final video sounded like a low-rotor-RPM warning horn, which signals that the main rotor is no longer spinning fast enough to keep the aircraft in the air.
“It just has all the earmarks of a potential loss of engine power and a dangerous decrease in the main rotor speed,"said Guzzetti, who previously investigated crashes for both the NTSB and Federal Aviation Administration.
Guzzetti said the pilot appeared to be attempting an emergency maneuver that uses airflow to keep the rotor turning, similar to the way wind spins a windmill. The technique can generate some lift and help cushion an impact, but Guzzetti said there would have been "little opportunity to do so because the helicopter had been hovering at a low altitude before the crash.'''
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/security-footage-metro-bus-collision/
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/la-metro-bus-crash-driver-court-postponed/
switch to 8ch.net instead of 8kun.top (rest of url the same) to have photos fullsize (at least it worked in the past)