A ba area football star is killed in a crash. Experts say he could havenr survived if it hadnt been for the guardrails he struck. The 24yearold Darrell Blackman died after an accident saturday moing in marin county. The guardrail has been blamed for deaths and injuries across the country. Here is a piece of t car i found at the scene. We dont know whether he was impaired. The chp is down loading data. But a guardrail make that sued the company says he should have survived tla crash. Friends tell the i team Darrell Blackman may have been coming home om work as a bouncer in bar when his car crashed 4 30 saturday morning. He exeled on the Berkeley High football team, played at campus state, and tried out for the 49ers in april afte an injury he hopes to try again next year. Through it, he volunteered coaching berkeley kids. Just amazing to me. Just a nice guy. After blackman died in the crash, crews didnt clean up welch i found pieces alo 101. A head light and aio hazard bag full of blood
A head light and a bio hazard bag full of bloody gloves they did take special care of the guardrail end piece i couldnt find it yesterday i did find a main beam, pulled the bumper out and verified it was blackmans through id number. After phone calls caltrans took me behind black tarps to show me the end terminal at e. P. Plus. That head is responsible for the death of that boy. There is no question. Here is the way its supposed to work the force of the car pushes the end terminal down and it flattens w into a smooth ribbon of steel. That slows the car. In this case, you can see the guardrail bulging out of the channel. How it folded right at the end terminal. They lock up. And it buckled over and buckled up and ripped off. The rail flipped onto the highway. The seabring continued past. After repeated insy lawsuits, 39 states banned the ep plus. Its frustrating to people like the family of blackman. I found stacks of new et plus heads in the caltrans yard, discovering caltrans installe
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That devotion between jerry and Joanne Canfield may be the reason why the husband allegedly killed his wife. This is strictly might have been the last best thing that he could do for her. Reporter Police Sergeant rick bradley says when canfield turned himself in a week and a half ago he showed a lot of remorse. He was very emotional. And very remorseful about the incident. He felt what he did was in his wifes best interest. Reporter police wont go into detail about canfields wifes condition, rod baker believes she suffered from dementia and since june she was in declining health after suffering from a fall. There were probably other avenues to take for them but they didnt know how to get there. Well, i think situations like this point to the need for good endoflife care. braddus is e director of the compassion and Care Organization in california. One of the things we learned about with the death with dignity, is that when you have a death with dignity law in the state those end of life
National news. Police say she is in good shape and talking. They tweeted this picture of her, all smiles, after getting word that she is safe. Lana has the latest. Reporter found alive. Tonight the fbi and Philadelphia Police department have great news. That carlesha freeland has been rescued. Reporter after being abducted just blocks from her home, the search for the 22yearold nurse carlesha freelandgaither is now over. Thank you for being there with us. Im taking my baby home. Thank you. Reporter the fbi released new video of this man, caught on a surveillance camera entering a philadelphia supermarket the same day carlesha was abducted. Of particular interest to investigators, his walk. Authorities hoped by releasing this video, someone would recognize him. On sunday, carlesha was forced into a car. That crime was caught by a nearby surveillance system. In just 30 seconds she was gone. Then eight hours later, more footage. This time from a maryland atm, a state where carlesha lived