MARTINEZ — A driver in a three-car crash that killed an 84-year-old man was sentenced to diversion after a police investigator modified his thoughts on the witness stand on the defendant’s preliminary listening to, courtroom information present.
Martin Baglien, 29, had been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter till his 2024 preliminary listening to, when a decide accepted a police investigator’s conclusion that the sufferer performed a task within the crash, and decreased it to a misdemeanor case. Baglien then obtained a one-year probation time period — set to run out this October — and was ordered to do 80 hours of neighborhood service, information present.
Wesley Watson, 84, was killed in a three-car crash close to a quick meals restaurant in Harmony, a little bit earlier than 6 p.m. on Aug. 18, 2022. Police on the time stated a automobile pulled out of an El Pollo Loco car parking zone on the 1500 block of Monument Boulevard in Harmony and was struck by a automotive. The power of the collision despatched the automotive that was struck into oncoming site visitors, the place one other automotive bumped into it.
Watson was killed, and no different accidents have been reported, authorities stated.
