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   From: democrats@vote.stupid   
      
   He deserves the same sentence that he meted out to the child.   
      
   LAKE ELMO, Minn. — A man is accused of being under the influence of alcohol   
   and a controlled substance when he crashed into a stalled car, killing a   
   5-year-old girl, according to charges filed in Washington County on Monday.   
      
   The 47-year-old man from St. Paul was charged with two counts of criminal   
   vehicular homicide — one for operating a vehicle in a grossly negligent   
   manner and another for operating a vehicle while under the influence of any   
   combination of alcohol or a    
   controlled substance.   
      
   Around 8:45 p.m. on Jan. 20, a car was stalled in the left lane of eastbound   
   Highway 36 at Lake Elmo Avenue in Lake Elmo. That's when another driver hit   
   the vehicle from behind while traveling at "highway speeds."   
      
   There were two children in the stalled vehicle, a 5-year-old girl and a   
   10-year-old boy, along with their dad, who had been driving the vehicle. The   
   girl, Morgan Rae Petersen, suffered life-threatening injuries and later died.   
   The injuries to the other    
   two were less serious.   
      
   Charges say a reconstruction of the crash revealed the suspect had been   
   traveling at 62-63 mph at the point of impact but had been going as fast as 81   
   mph five seconds before the crash. The speed limit in the area is 65 mph.   
      
   Reconstruction experts for the Minnesota State Patrol noted the road had been   
   clear and dry at the time of the incident and that the flashing lights of the   
   stalled vehicle were visible from about a fourth of a mile away, charges say.   
      
   The state patrol filed a search warrant to get a blood sample from the driver,   
   saying he smelled like alcohol. According to the warrant, the man admitted to   
   law enforcement that he had consumed two beers "earlier."   
      
   A blood test done about four hours after the crash revealed the suspect had a   
   blood alcohol concentration of .056 in addition to the presence of Clonazepam,   
   which he is prescribed, according to the complaint.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/lake-elmo-stalled-car-cra   
   h-death-charges/?intcid=CNR-02-0623   
      
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