The driver of the car that sparked a Wednesday pileup that closed Interstate 10 for 27 hours did not have a driver’s license, Baton Rouge police said Friday. Delmar Fernandez, 23, 8500 Broadway St., Houston, was issued a traffic citation for driver’s license required and careless operation of a vehicle, police Cpl. Jean McKneely said. Early Wednesday, Fernandez was driving his silver 2001 Honda Civic in the outside eastbound lane of I-10 near Essen Lane when he bumped a 2012 Freightliner tractor-trailer in the inside lane, McKneely said. Fernandez then hit a retaining wall twice, causing his car to flip and land in the middle of the interstate, McKneely said. The man driving the tractor-trailer stopped and parked his rig in front of Fernandez’s car so it would not be hit by oncoming traffic, McKneely said. The driver of a 2005 International Enterprise Transportation tanker truck carrying 8,700 gallons of isobutene saw the crash and stopped behind the tractor-trailer, McKneely said
Editor’s Note: On Wednesday, the Vermont State Police retracted their earlier statement and said the cast was on the driver’s left foot, not his right foot. The story below has been updated to reflect the most recent information.
The driver who was killed along with his girlfriend and infant son in a head-on collision Monday morning on Interstate 89 in Bolton was driving without a valid driver’s license and with a cast on his left foot, according to police. Investigators still are trying to determine what caused Jason Potvin, 29, to drive a Subaru Legacy across the interstate’s median at about 7:30 a.m. Monday and into oncoming southbound traffic. The car slammed into a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, killing Potvin, 29-year-old April Otis and their 7-month-old son, Hunter. The family lived in Williamstown.
State police declined to say Tuesday whether they thought the cast might have contributed to the crash.
The driver who was killed along with his girlfriend and infant son in a head-on collision Monday morning on Interstate 89 in Bolton was driving without a valid driver’s license and with a cast on his left foot, according to police. Investigators still are trying to determine what caused Jason Potvin, 29, to drive a Subaru Legacy across the interstate’s median at about 7:30 a.m. Monday and into oncoming southbound traffic. The car slammed into a Chevy Silverado pickup truck, killing Potvin, 29-year-old April Otis and their 7-month-old son, Hunter. The family lived in Williamstown.
State police declined to say Tuesday whether they thought the cast might have contributed to the crash.
BOYLE HEIGHTS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — there’s new push to allow illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses in California. Supporters of the plan held a news conference in Boyle Heights Thursday. The battle for driver’s license for undocumented immigrants has gone on for at least a decade. Backers of a new bill hope to pressure Governor Jerry Brown and state lawmakers into approving the legislation. Southern California Immigration Coalition, along with undocumented students and workers and their supporters, gathered for Thursday’s news conference to call for passage of a bill sponsored by California Assemblyman Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles). Cedillo’s measure would allow driver’s licenses for undocumented migrants and immigrants. He’s expected to introduce the bill in the Legislature this week. Immigrant rights groups say driver’s-license checkpoints and 30-day impounds by L.A. authorities have unfairly targeted poor and undocumented people in the Hispanic community
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