A Truly Bad Driver

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Driver Held In 8½-Mile Dragging Of Va. Man

 

By Ian Shapira

Washington Post Staff Writer

Monday, March 1, 2004; Page A01

 

 

A Lorton motorist was charged yesterday with manslaughter after he hit a man with his vehicle on Interstate 95 near the Fairfax County Parkway and dragged his body 81/2 miles before notifying authorities, Fairfax County police said.

 

Early yesterday, Josuel Galdino, 25, hit Fitsum Gebreegziabher, 27, of Woodbridge along I-95 after Gebreegziabher, who had been driving south, apparently stopped and got out of his Toyota Camry after getting a flat tire, according to a police account.

 

Galdino struck the rear of the Toyota, apparently pinning Gebreegziabher beneath the front-end suspension of his Mitsubishi Montero, said police, who would not speculate on what time the incident occurred.

 

Galdino then drove 81/2 to nine miles, to his home in Lorton, before realizing what had happened, police spokesman Sophia Grinnan said.

 

"That's gruesome," she said. "He drives home and there's a guy still attached to his car."

 

Aside from manslaughter, Galdino was charged with driving while intoxicated and felony hit-and-run. He is being held without bond at the Fairfax County adult detention center, Grinnan said.

 

At 4 a.m., Fairfax County police towed Gebreegziabher's Toyota, which had a flat tire and rear-end damage, Grinnan said. The Toyota was hit while in the left lane of a stretch of the interstate that has no emergency lanes, said Mary Ann Jennings, another Fairfax County police spokesman.

 

Two hours after authorities towed the Toyota, Galdino called Fairfax County police to report a dead body on his property, Grinnan said.

 

"He called and said he thinks he hit someone on the interstate, but he said he wasn't sure, and there's a dead guy in front of [his] house," Grinnan said.

 

Grinnan said she did not know whether Galdino removed the body from his car before investigators arrived. She said investigators returned yesterday to the point of impact on I-95 and followed Galdino's path home to try to gather the victim's remains or other evidence.

[Doug]

I think this http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/157105 tops that. The reason I post this is I know Brock's father. Find out who your state representative/senator is, write them and let them know how you feel about the WSP's policy on their own road hazards.

[catbirdseat]

I think this http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/157105 tops that. The reason I post this is I know Brock's father. Find out who your state representative/senator is, write them and let them know how you feel about the WSP's policy on their own road hazards.

It's time to send Crandall back to the Coast Guard, provided he doesn't get near the wheelhouse.