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State v. Christian3/9/2004
then asked how many people were in the car, and the man told her that there were two. Finally, Wilson asked him if they both were alright, and the man responded, "Yes, we're both okay." The police arrived at the scene shortly thereafter.
Officer Shawn Nelson of the Suffield police department arrived at the scene at approximately 12:50 a.m. on March 18, 2000. He identified himself as a police officer and, upon receiving no response from the occupants of the victim's car, made his way down the embankment to the vehicle. Sergeant David Bourque of the Suffield police department arrived shortly thereafter and joined Nelson at the bottom of the embankment. Nelson and Bourque both observed that the car's driver's side door was open, and that the defendant was sitting in the creek, unconscious, with his back against the open driver's side door and his body slumped forward into the driver's seat area. Through the window of the closed passenger's side door, Bourque observed that the victim "was in the passenger seat with her buttocks fully in the seat." Nelson forced open the passenger's side door, which was jammed shut, and he and Bourque observed that the victim was seated in the passenger seat with her body slumped forward toward the vehicle's center console, which was completely destroyed. She was not wearing a seat belt. The victim did not make any movement, nor did she respond to Nelson's questions asking if she was alright.
Nelson and Bourque soon were joined by other emergency personnel, including several firefighters and Deidre Vorih, an emergency medical technician. Vorih observed that the defendant still was sitting in the creek, unconscious and leaning against the open driver's side door. She revived the defendant, who appeared confused. After ascertaining that the defendant was able to use his legs, Vorih instructed him to get out of the creek and wait in the driver's seat of the car while she tended to the victim.
Because the victim was not breathing and had no pulse, the emergency personnel had to remove her from the vehicle to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on her. The victim was a relatively large woman, approximately five feet eight inches tall and weighing approximately 200 pounds, and it took the concerted efforts of Nelson, Vorih and two or three firefighters to remove her from the car and carry her up the embankment. CPR was performed on the victim, who never regained consciousness. She was transported by ambulance to Hartford Hospital.
Vorih then tended to the defendant while they waited for a second ambulance to arrive to transport him to the hospital. She observed that the defendant was "much more lucid" than he had been earlier, and that he was able to answer her questions regarding his medical history. After the second ambulance arrived at the scene, Vorih and another emergency medical technician, Nicole Ruggiero, accompanied the defendant to Hartford Hospital. On the way to the hospital the ambulance stopped to pick up Tonya Ford, a paramedic, who also accompanied the defendant to the hospital. In the course of the ride to the hospital, the defendant told both Vorih and Ruggiero that, before the accident, he had been at a friend's house, and that he had been driving to a bar in Southwick, Massachusetts. He also told them that he had been in a previous car accident five weeks earlier, and was taking prescription pain medication for injuries sustained in that accident. With regard to the previous accident, Vorih asked the defendant, "Were you driving then too?" The defendant responded, "Yeah, I was driving then, too." In addition, the defendant repeatedly told Vorih, Ruggiero and Ford that he had been driving the victim's car at the time of th
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