BRIDGEWATER — Evidence collected from a crash reconstruction, including excessive speed and the lack of any braking, contributed to a state police decision to issue a pair of felony criminal citations to a Rutland man involved in a fatal Bridgewater crash, a state police lieutenant said Wednesday.
The day after police issued a citation to 25-year-old Joshua Ouimette, who was one of the driver’s in a head-on collision on Route 4, Royalton state police barracks commander Lt. William Jenkins said the trooper investigating the case consulted with the Windsor County state’s attorney before deciding Ouimette’s actions leading up to the crash warranted criminal charges.
“The evidence indicated he clearly was not paying attention to what he was doing and crossed the centerline striking the other vehicle head-on,” Jenkins said.
Ouimette was driving a 2004 GMC Envoy with his 28-year-old girlfriend Stephanie Hill and his six-month-old son on board on Jan. 15 when he swerved into the eastbound lane of Route 4 striking a 2001 Ford Escape carrying a family of four from Las Vegas, Nev.
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