A young Tennessee driver who was about to become a father next month allegedly lost everything after he got behind the wheel drunk, killing his eight-month-old pregnant wife, her baby and another’s passenger. vehicle.
“Two vehicles collided head-on, resulting in a total of five patients, two with life-threatening injuries and three with serious injuries. Several were trapped and had to be extricated,” the Knox County fire department, Rural Metro Fire, reported on Saturday on Facebook, according to the “New York Post”.
It was around 6 p.m. Friday that Jonathon Jones, 20, driving a Nissan Sentra, allegedly deviated from his lane to hit a Ford Expedition which was coming in the opposite direction. Images of the scene, shared by emergency services, also show the extent of the damage.
Screenshot taken from Facebook
Unfortunately, the shock would have been such that his eight-month pregnant wife at his side, Casandra Jones, and their unborn baby, who was to be named Jonathon Chad, would have died in the accident, according to the American media.
The death of the 28-year-old mother-to-be and her baby was noted around 7:24 p.m., according to court documents. The woman got married last October.
A passenger, Virginia Brooks, who was in the other vehicle involved in the accident, also died from her injuries the next day, after being rushed to a hospital.
For his part, the driver who had bloodshot and watery eyes during his transport to the hospital admitted to authorities that he smoked cannabis every day, according to the “NY Post”.
Witnesses at the scene reportedly saw him driving recklessly just before the accident, when he was apparently trying to overtake cars despite the double yellow line.
He will face three counts of homicide while driving while impaired, two counts of aggravated and reckless assault and one count of improper passing.
