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A single-vehicle crash late Thursday night claimed the life of a 21-year-old Sheldon man, according to Vermont State Police.
Troopers from the St. Albans Barracks responded at approximately 8:40 p.m. on Dec. 26 to a report of a crash with operator entrapment near 1126 VT Route 78. Emergency crews from AmCare and Sheldon Fire also responded to the scene.
Police said a 2015 Audi A4, operated by Jacob King, 21, of Sheldon, had left the roadway and struck a tree. King was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two passengers in the vehicle — Brennan Pandis, 21, and Raven Graves, 21, both of Highgate — were able to exit the vehicle on their own. They were treated at the scene for minor injuries and released by medical personnel.
None of the vehicle’s occupants were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash, police said. The vehicle sustained total damage.
Preliminary investigation indicates that speed was a contributing factor in the crash. The incident remains under investigation.
Anyone who witnessed the crash or has information is asked to contact Trooper Underwood of the Vermont State Police St. Albans Barracks at 802-524-5993.
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Amazing that those two young men were able to walk away.
Buckle up. No excuses.
Make failure to use seat belts a primary offense. The police can pull youover for have a license plate light out (which because of the reflectivity of modern licesnse plates add no safety) but you can’t be pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt? It sends the wrong message.
…Gives too much power to police to pull someone over because it “looked like” you weren’t wearing your belt. Vermont is very fortunate to have never enacted primary enforcement. Someone who habitually doesn’t wear a belt wont do it just because of a state statute. There are not many opportunities for Darwinism to take it’s course these days, but not wearing a seat belt is one way to thin the herd.
Oh no………making seat belt use a primary offense is “limiting” the people’s “right” to kill or maim themselves in auto accidents if they so choose – after all, “autonomy” is of great importance to Vermonters and the state’s motto incorporates the word “freedom” within it!
Meanwhile, in reality: The “democrat”-socialists are hard at work eroding your actual rights to freedom of religion through school choice policy adjustments, forcing a type of socialized medicine in a state wherein nearly 98% of residents were already insured, openly violating federal law by instituting “safe injection sites” where individuals can use/abuse illegal narcotics, declaring the state a “sanctuary” for illegal aliens which further violates federal law, etc.
But allow us to placate your silly American predilections for “freedom”: We SUPPORT your “right” to not use life-saving restraints as you buzz down the highway at 70 mph! Enjoy, suckers!
Vermont remains “free”, “free”, “free”! Ask Bernie!
Kathleen, Pennsylvania has a very perplexing situation, they have a seat belt law referred to as “Click it or Ticket”, applies to everyone in the car, however just about the same time this was enacted they repealed the motorcycle helmet law, none required now
That is perplexing, Ron.
I always wondered why VT required one.
And the “Live Free or Die” State, “understandably” requires neither. Seat belt law not mandatory & no helmets required.
The only difference I can see though is that N.H. actually IS a state that honors & enables freedom. VT is just a poser at this point in time after voters allowed all the phony hypocritical socialists to overrun the state house.
So they’ll allow you to kill yourself in a wreck, allow you to illegally cross our international border, allow you to murder the unborn, but won’t allow parents to choose a parochial school under the school choice laws.
They alone define what defines “freedom”.