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THE HURON EXPOSITOR, June 16, 1999-9
Friend talked to companions who were
still breathing until the ambulance arrived
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attendants testifying for the
Cron .tated that they had to
remove LcBeau's feet from
the driver's footwell area.
McClenaghan also testified
that Atchison was. lying
outside the vehicle towards
the back of the driver's side
of the car.
McClcnaghan said she
chcckcd their vital signs and
said that Atchison had no
pulse. and both LeBeau and
Gardner were breathing.
Hill was in the front
passenger scat. she added and
Webster was 'lying across thc
hack scat. McClenaghan said
that Hill had no pulse and
Welistcr"was breathing. She
-
learned King was in the car
when ambulance attendants
pulled her out.
;l kepttalking to thc
people who were breathing,"
said, McClcnaghan. of what
she did before the ambulance
arrived. She added that she
didn't move any of •the
occupants.
Through cross examination
by Crown 'attorney Bob
Morris. McClcnaghansaid
she couldn't remember what
she was drinking at the Hill
party or how much. She
testified that she wasn't sure
who's beer was found in
LeBeau's vehicle at the scene
of the accident..
said she
can't remember if LeBeau
was drinking.
"Arc =you trying to protect
your friend:'," asked Morris,
questioning McClcnaghan's
"spotty memory...Did you
have more to drink than
you're telling usr
McClcnaghan said that was
•
not the case and added that
she never noticed anything
"out of the -ordinary with-
LeBcau's behaviour. .
"If she was (acting) out of
the ordinary 1 would .have
noticed." said McClcnaghan.
Chris Ciapka was on his
way to Goderich from
London to go fishing in the
early hours of Nov. 24, 1996,
when he and his friend came
across the accident.
Ciapka testified Tuesday
that they came across a male
in the middle of County Road
31 trying to flag them down.
He said they pulled over,
heard there had been and
.accident and went to help.
Ciapka said he was the first
one to find the vehicle and
said thc female on the scene
became hysterical- when she
found her friends at,the scene
of the accident. -
He went close to the
vehicle and given his training
as a ,volunteer firefighter,
began to check for vital signs
and any gas leaks from the
ear that could cause more
danger.
Ciapka'said at the scene he
found two bodies outside the
car and three inside. He
testified that he found one
female outside near the front
of the driver's wheel lying
parallel to the vehicle. Hc
added that her body was
completely out of the vehicle.
A larger male. he said, -was
found towards the back of the
car, lying perpendicular to the
car. He added that these two.
occupantswere alive.
Three people were found
inside, one male sitting in the
driver's scat with his legs
down by the pedals, one
person in the passenger scat
leaning on the dash anti ohe
person in the back seat almost
"rolled in a hall" All three of
these occupants were mule.
Once all of the occupants
were checked he ran to his
truck to get blankets to lay on
the passengers and then
began clearing a way for the
ambulance attendants to get
down the hill to the vehicle.
Asked by defense Lawyer
Glen Carey if Ciapka formed
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a view of who the driver was.
he replied that he thought the
male in the driver's seat was
the driver. -
At the scene. Ciapka said
he could smell alcohol both
around the car and from the
female (McClcnaghan) at the
scene.
Through cross examination. -
Morris asked Ciapka about a
statement he gave to a private
investigator more that six
months 'after the accident. In
his statement, he said
McClcnaghan had told him at
the scene that the LeBeau
vehicle left thc party at a high
speed and a male at the scene
asked Ciapka to tell the
police he had been driving his
car because the male had
been drinking to much.
. "I told him I wouldn't do
it," said Ciapka.
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