"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
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"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
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Great Falls man sentenced to 6 years for accident.
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Copy pasta: GREAT FALLS – A Great Falls man has been sentenced for crashing his car into a Montana Highway Patrol trooper’s vehicle in 2018.
Larry Lee Rowland has been sentenced to six years in the Montana State Prison and another six months in Cascade County Jail. The terms will run consecutively.
In January 2018, Trooper Jeff Groshelle was responding to a green Mustang that was speeding and weaving in and out of traffic on I-15.
Groshelle says he waited south of Cascade for the vehicle to come out of the canyon.
“I waited approximately 45 minutes for the vehicle to enter my area,” Groshelle said.
Groshelle says he assumed the vehicle had gotten off the interstate, so he started to head back to Great Falls to clock out of the office.
“I had heard this crazy explosion. My first thought was that I ran something over,” Groshelle said.
Groshelle said his car was shaking, and when he looked in his mirror, he could see debris and smoke.
He could also see a vehicle that had stopped near the guard rail.
“I tried to figure out what was going on. I knew my teeth hurt, my ribs hurt, and I had a really sharp pain in my lower leg,” Groshelle said.
Groshelle said the door to the Mustang was open, and the driver looked dazed.
Groshelle said that Rowland did not know what had happened.
During Thursday’s sentencing, Trooper Scott Waddell testified about reconstructing the crash scene.
Waddell says that Groshell was heading north on I-15 at the speed of 82 miles per hour.
“We found that the speed of the vehicle Mr. Rowland was driving was between 147 and 151 miles per hour when he struck Trooper Groshelle,” Waddell said.
During the investigation, Waddell found the road to be bare, dry and clear at the time of the accident.
Waddell said that Rowland told law enforcement Trooper Groshelle’s vehicle came out of nowhere.
Trooper Groshelle was off the job for four months with multiple injuries, including a serious concussion.
“He hit me so square that if he would have been maybe a little off, a couple of inches to the left or the right, it would have been off center and put me into a spin. If I would have rolled at 82 miles per hour, I would have probably rolled 70 times. With all the equipment and stuff in that car, I would not be here right now,” Groshelle said.
Judge John Kutzman said he did not agree with the plea agreement, and that is why he gave a harsher sentence.
DipodomysDeserti
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/05/2019 at 17:10 |
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They’re claiming a 70 mph speed differential and this is what the troopers truck looked like afterwards? Hmmmmmm.
WilliamsSW
> DipodomysDeserti
05/05/2019 at 17:17 |
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Neither car looks like it was in a 65-70 mph accident.
Which in turn leads me to doubt the trooper was doing 82, either...
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/05/2019 at 17:18 |
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“Came out of nowhere”
Never heard that before
[That was facetious]
LongbowMkII
> DipodomysDeserti
05/05/2019 at 17:18 |
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Hmmm it’d be a first for police to lie about an incident.
sony1492
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/05/2019 at 17:29 |
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“70 rolls" K
boxrocket
> DipodomysDeserti
05/05/2019 at 17:40 |
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Ford’s modern Police Interceptors are designed to take rear-end hits at up to 75 mph. I’d need someone better with physics and math than I to determine if that means it can take the same impact as a differential (e.g. PI travelling at 75mph and the striking vehicle travelling up to 150mph).
My bird IS the word
> boxrocket
05/05/2019 at 17:57 |
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Thatd be about accurate.
boredalways
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/05/2019 at 18:11 |
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I wonder what was the plea agreement that would cause a judge to give a harsher sentence?
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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> sony1492
05/05/2019 at 18:21 |
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Extremely difficult to believe that statement. He was not going 200 at Talladega.
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LongbowMkII
> boxrocket
05/05/2019 at 18:26 |
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Standard mustangs aren’t designed to give 75mph impacts though unless IIHS gave the last gen mustang 10 stars...
Spanfeller is a twat
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/05/2019 at 18:32 |
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No way they hit with such difference ... either the mustang started braking before the hit or the cop was going much quicker
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Spanfeller is a twat
> boxrocket
05/05/2019 at 18:32 |
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That doesn’t really solve for the mustang tho
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LongbowMkII
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/05/2019 at 18:33 |
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My hair-brained theory, mustang came over small ridge at 120-130 and caught trooper pulling out going 30-40, impact at (trooper) 40 vs (mustang) 80-90.
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sony1492
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/05/2019 at 18:34 |
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Ev idently the judge ate it up
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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> LongbowMkII
05/05/2019 at 18:40 |
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Your theory is the most plausible scenario in my opinion. The MHP could have had a gps to verify his own speed tho...
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DipodomysDeserti
> boxrocket
05/05/2019 at 19:44 |
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Better ask the officer. Sounds like he might hold an advanced degree in physics based on his estimated seventy possible rolls. It seems the Montana State Police have a hell of a math department.
412GTI
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/05/2019 at 20:04 |
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6 years seems crazy for a non-lethal crash. The justice system has sent many rapist & other horrid criminals to much less. This guy should serve some, but 6 seems like a waste of tax payer money.
Tristan
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/05/2019 at 20:18 |
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That sure doesn’t look like 70+ mph with of damage. I doubt this guy would be serving 6+ years if he’d hit someone who wasn't a cop.