Tallahassee,FL: Wrong-way driver ‘aiming’ for car before fatal crash on October, Thursday 12th 2017

Motorists driving west into the fog early one December morning testified Thursday about seeing a car come at them on their side of Sunrise Highway before hitting another car head-on.

Andrea Barile, then of Mastic, said he was going to work in Hauppauge when he saw the oncoming car hit the vehicle that Barile was following.
“It seemed like he was aiming for that car,” Barile said, describing how the wrong-way car moved from the right westbound lane to hit the car in the left westbound lane.

Barile’s assessment could be important in the trial of Christopher O’Brien, 55, of Sound Beach, who is accused of driving drunk and high on cocaine when he killed Thomas D’Eletto, 57, a project manager going from his home in Aquebogue to work in Nassau County on Dec. 23, 2015.

O’Brien is charged with second-degree murder, a rare charge in vehicular cases. To convict, prosecutors must convince state Supreme Court Justice Fernando Camacho, who is hearing the case in Central Islip without a jury, that O’Brien had the state of mind necessary to prove he had a depraved indifference to human life.



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Wrong-way driver ‘aiming’ for car before fatal crash