Mariposa County: Drunk Driver Struck, Killed Motorcyclist Tommy Kinard
On Tuesday, November 2nd, a drunk driver struck and killed 64-year-old motorcyclist Tommy Kinard in Mariposa County. While traveling westbound on Highway 140 in a 2008 Hyundai, 40-year-old Tammy Lawhon swerved into the eastbound lane, colliding head-on with Kinard. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. Neither Lawhon nor the child in her vehicle was injured. Authorities arrested her on suspicion of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter, explains a California personal injury attorney.
Mariposa County accounted for 1 of the 383 fatalities and 27 of the 10,479 injuries suffered by motorcyclists in traffic accidents in California in 2009, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System. That year, the number of motorcyclists killed in such incidents decreased by 29.6 percent, the first decline since 1998, marking the end to an 11-year, 175 percent increase, according to the California Office of Traffic Safety.
All of us at Allen, Flatt, Ballidis, and Leslie would like to offer our condolences to the family of Tommy Kinard, the motorcyclist who was struck and killed by the drunk driver yesterday.
The Fresno Bee originally reported this Mariposa County accident.
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