Driver Caught Smoking Heroin After Allegedly Falling Asleep Behind Wheel, Killing Cyclist
Investigators were told by two witnesses that they saw a Jeep Cherokee drive onto the shoulder, hit the cyclist, then keep driving.
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Investigators were told by two witnesses that they saw a Jeep Cherokee drive onto the shoulder, hit the cyclist, then keep driving.
Two witnesses told investigators they watched the Jeep Cherokee drive on to the shoulder at strike the 63-year-old Poulsbo man.
Man who hit, killed bicyclist gets 9-years prison sentence By News Staff PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - A man believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel while coming down from meth and who struck and killed a bicyclist riding on the shoulder of Bethel Burley Road was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide. Thomas F. Johnson, 56, of Tacoma, died the afternoon of May 9, 2020, after being struck from behind by Shawn R. Damschen, 41, whose car drifted over the fog line, the Kitsap Sun reported. Damschen, whose driver’s license had been suspended, continued...