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An 85-year-old woman whose car plowed through an elementary school cafeteria, killing a boy and injuring two other students, won't face criminal charges, a prosecutor said.
"This was certainly not intentional," Robert Haida, St. Clair County state's attorney, said Friday.
On Monday, police issued what likely will be the only penalty Grace Keim will face in the Jan. 29 crash: a traffic ticket for failing to reduce speed.
She drove up a dead-end drive at Shiloh Elementary School and never stopped. She crashed through the cafeteria at lunchtime, according to police in Shiloh, a village just east of St. Louis.
Ryan Wesling, 8, died at a hospital about an hour later. Two other students were injured.
If I was Ryan's parents I would be OUTRAGED! Being old is no excuse for reckless driving. I wonder what penalties a 16 year old would have faced for the same accident? At the very LEAST Grace Keim should PERMANETLY LOSE HER DRIVERS LICENSE.
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Shouldn't they at least take her drivers license away?
An 85-year-old woman whose car plowed through an elementary school cafeteria, killing a boy and injuring two other students, won't face criminal charges, a prosecutor said.
"This was certainly not intentional," Robert Haida, St. Clair County state's attorney, said Friday.
On Monday, police issued what likely will be the only penalty Grace Keim will face in the Jan. 29 crash: a traffic ticket for failing to reduce speed.
She drove up a dead-end drive at Shiloh Elementary School and never stopped. She crashed through the cafeteria at lunchtime, according to police in Shiloh, a village just east of St. Louis.
Ryan Wesling, 8, died at a hospital about an hour later. Two other students were injured.
If I was Ryan's parents I would be OUTRAGED! Being old is no excuse for reckless driving. I wonder what penalties a 16 year old would have faced for the same accident? At the very LEAST Grace Keim should PERMANETLY LOSE HER DRIVERS LICENSE.
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First we have a drive by shooting at a public elementary school in Brazil, Ind, thankfully no students were injured. A bullet was fired through an elementary school's cafeteria window in an apparent drive-by shooting Thursday, and a custodian was...
- 94 Year Old Drives Car Into Restaurant
An elderly woman drove a car through the glass front of a restaurant in this Chicago suburb Thursday, sending nine people to hospitals, police said. The 94-year-old driver hit a parked vehicle before accelerating into the lobby of the Panera Bread restaurant...
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