[Vision2020] megaloads results in injury accident

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Wayne,

ISP's leadership didn't need this to lose credibility:

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/10/02/v-print/1823495/contradictions-equal-perjuryor.html

This article is by Tom McCabe, an excellent criminal defense lawyer in Boise. The fact that the ISP expert contradicted himself under oath in two different cases only came to light because the same lawyer in the state appellate PD office in Boise ended up assigned to both cases, and caught the contradictory evidence.

It is very rare for an appeals court to throw out a conviction in these circumstances. But ISP's leadership concluded there was no problem with the testimony.

Sunil

From: deco at moscow.com
To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:40:25 -0800
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] megaloads results in injury accident








Add the ISP to IDT of those agencies citizens 
cannot trust to be honest and forthright.  This kind of dishonesty taints 
all ISP accident reports, past and future.
 
I'm opposed to the megaloads primarily because 
they are part of a chain the will be the worst human and environmental disaster 
ever.  But on local grounds, they also appear to be a huge inconvenient 
pain in the ass for regular highway travelers wasting ordinary travelers' time 
and fuel -- and also giving rise to some road rage and its 
consequences.
 
w.




From: Bill London 
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:09 AM
To: vision2020 
Subject: [Vision2020] megaloads results in injury 
accident




The Daily News 
reports (page 3A in today’s issue, Thurs) the first automobile injury accident 
on Highway 95 resulting from the megaloads. (see the text 
below)
A flagger was 
stationed on Highway 95 near Viola.  One driver stopped to find out what to 
do, and a second driver struck the first.  Of course, it was an accident, 
but the Idaho State Police were quick to blame the drivers and hold the 
megaloads blameless.
“It had nothing 
to do with the loads,” the Idaho State Police representative 
said.
That’s 
ridiculous.  The flagger was there ONLY because of the megaloads moving on 
the highway that night.  The flagger’s position was the vital first step in 
a chain of causality resulting in the accident.
The Idaho State 
Police are being paid huge piles of overtime cash to guide the megaloads through 
Idaho.  That has certainly tainted their sense of responsibility, and shown 
Idaho residents that their own police can be bought.
BL
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Two injured in 
U.S. 95 collision 
Staff report | Posted: Thursday, 
November 10, 2011 12:00 am 
Two Idaho men were released from the hospital 
following a rear-end collision Tuesday night near Viola on U.S. Highway 95 that 
law enforcement claims occurred when one driver stopped to talk with a flagger 
awaiting Imperial Oil shipments bound for the Idaho/Montana border.
According to the Latah County Sheriff's Office, 
Shawn Dewitt, 36, of Princeton, stopped his vehicle on the highway to 
investigate flashing lights belonging to a flagger awaiting three shipments of 
refinery equipment and ask how he should proceed.

Idaho State Police Capt. Lonnie Richardson said Dewitt 
voluntarily stopped to talk to the flagger around 11 p.m., and had not been 
requested to do so. Dewitt's vehicle was then struck from behind by a vehicle 
driven by Frank Bybee, 33, of Desmet, Idaho, according to the sheriff's 
office.

"It had nothing to do with the loads or being 
confused by the lights," said Richardson. "It was just driver 
error."

Richardson said the collision closed part of the 
highway, which was cleared around 1 a.m. after an investigation of the crash 
scene was conducted. Bybee and Dewitt were both transported to Gritman Medical 
Center where they were treated and released, according to a hospital 
spokeswoman. Both of their vehicles were towed and no citations have been 
issued.

Richardson said ISP was first to arrive on the 
scene, but the sheriff's office is acting as the investigating agency as the 
state police had been assigned to covering the road Tuesday night as part of a 
contract with Mammoet, the shipping contractor for Imperial Oil. Those shipments 
were delayed by the accident for about an hour.



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