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Article: Fatal crash blamed on cell phone user.
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- Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Byline: Ben Schmitt and Amber Hunt
Mar. 1--Shawn Cates killed a woman, authorities said, crossing the center line on Dequindre last Thursday and smashing head-on into a car driven by a 55-year-old mother of three.And his cell phone is at least partly to blame, they said.In a case that underscores a national effort to restrict handheld cell phone use while driving, Macomb County prosecutors said Tuesday that they have charged Cates, 20, of Hazel Park with negligent homicide in the death of 55-year-old Diela Lucaj. They say Cates was talking on his cell phone when he drifted across the center line in Warren and killed the restaurant cook from Sterling ...
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