I'm kind of surprised that nobody else posted anything about this case. This seems like a perfect point of discussion for an auto forum.
I know it's kind of old news, but I've been following this case for about a month. It's kind of an interesting case because the initial reporting was after the local police issued a collision report that placed Williams at fault, and after the passenger (Jerome Barson) died of internal injuries about two weeks after the collision. Then the police received video from the guard shack of the gated community where Venus Williams lives, where one of the cameras was pointed towards the intersection. The latest news was that a couple of days ago the police department released video from the bodycam of the officer who investigated at the scene.
This has the bodycam video at the scene:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/sport...atal-crash.html
However, here's the police statement and a link to the security cam video:
http://pbgfl.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=308
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhjp91zyd2p7nr3/6-9-17 Crash Surveillance Footage.mp4?dl=0
The way I see it, Williams entered the intersection on a green and stopped because a driver from the opposite direction made a left in front of her, cutting her off. Then she proceeded as is legal under Florida law, even though the light had turned yellow then red while she was in the intersection. I'm pretty sure we've all been in an intersection when the light turned red and made it out unscathed. However, then from the cross direction there's a car that's just flying through (estimated at 25 MPH) just when it turns green past cars that were stopped at the red.
Here's a shorter, annotated version of the security cam video:
http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/07/venus-williams-car-crash-video-surveillance/
I know it's kind of old news, but I've been following this case for about a month. It's kind of an interesting case because the initial reporting was after the local police issued a collision report that placed Williams at fault, and after the passenger (Jerome Barson) died of internal injuries about two weeks after the collision. Then the police received video from the guard shack of the gated community where Venus Williams lives, where one of the cameras was pointed towards the intersection. The latest news was that a couple of days ago the police department released video from the bodycam of the officer who investigated at the scene.
This has the bodycam video at the scene:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/sport...atal-crash.html
However, here's the police statement and a link to the security cam video:
http://pbgfl.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=308
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhjp91zyd2p7nr3/6-9-17 Crash Surveillance Footage.mp4?dl=0
The way I see it, Williams entered the intersection on a green and stopped because a driver from the opposite direction made a left in front of her, cutting her off. Then she proceeded as is legal under Florida law, even though the light had turned yellow then red while she was in the intersection. I'm pretty sure we've all been in an intersection when the light turned red and made it out unscathed. However, then from the cross direction there's a car that's just flying through (estimated at 25 MPH) just when it turns green past cars that were stopped at the red.
Here's a shorter, annotated version of the security cam video:
http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/07/venus-williams-car-crash-video-surveillance/