Twisted metal and plastic debris are strewn across the asphalt, a car battery lays on the roadway, and a truck tire rests in a grassy median a short distance from where two trucks came to a rest after one plowed into the other.
The frame of a Toyota Tacoma was crushed by the sudden impact and force of a 2004 Chevy Silverado driving into the driver’s side. Opposite the trucks on the exit ramp, a red Mazda Miata sat with its entire front a mangled mess.
These were just some details jurors observed in more than 60 photographs shown in court of a November 2021 crash scene on Laurel Road when a Chevy truck plowed past an SUV causing rear damage and took off down the road failing to stop at a red light and colliding into the Mazda sports car and another truck.
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When law enforcement arrived, 52-year-old Fabio Wakizaka was pronounced dead, then 63-year-old David Crawford had a fractured wrist and the driver of the truck that collided with the others was nowhere to be found.