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Student at Wheel Charged in Halberstam Death

Prosecutor calls crash 'more than a mistake'

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 22, 2007 12:29 PM CDT
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(Newser) – The student who drove the car in which journalism icon David Halberstam was killed will be charged with vehicular manslaughter, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Kevin Jones, 26, a UC Berkeley journalism student, allegedly ran a red light to turn left and collided with an oncoming car. He faces up to a year in jail if convicted.

"The conduct engaged in by Mr. Jones was more than simply a mistake. It was negligence," the prosecutor said. Halberstam, the 73-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner,  was in the San Francisco area in April for a speaking engagement at Berkeley and to work on his next book.

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Menlo Park police investigate the scene of a fatal three-car accident Monday, April 23, 2007, in Menlo Park, Calif. David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who chronicled the Washington press corps, Vietnam and the world of sports, was killed in the crash according to his wife and local...
Menlo Park police investigate the scene of a fatal three-car accident Monday, April 23, 2007, in Menlo Park, Calif. David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who chronicled the...   (Associated Press)
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