Jason Fait, the ambulance operator involved in a fatal 2006 intersection accident, was acquited of vehicular homicide yesterday. Fait and his partner were uninjured after he drove his ambulance through a red light at an intersection in Hempfield Township and collided with an SUV fatally injuring the driver of that vehicle, Frank Scalise Jr.
Video of the crash recovered from the ambulances DriveCam was played in the courtcase as evidence. Fait’s lawyer, Ken Burkley, attributes the argument that Fait did not intentionally run the red light as the deciding factor.
How much the DriveCam video aided in that argument is of course up for debate.
Sources: WTAE and Statter911