Defendant in 2008 Plano crash that killed 5 cites faulty brakes
12:00
AM CDT on Thursday, August 26, 2010
David Calhoun Jones says he doesn't remember the June 2008 wreck that killed a Plano family of five. He doesn't remember his rented Pontiac G5 accelerating to 98 mph, jumping a curb and going airborne before it crashed through the family's minivan, struck another pickup and came to rest on its side.
Jones, 48, took the witness stand
Wednesday afternoon in his trial on five counts of manslaughter. He told
jurors he was headed west on Legacy Drive in Plano to pick up his
teenage daughter and was driving the speed limit. He called her on his cellphone
at 10:47 a.m. and told her he was only a few minutes away.
Police recorded the first 911 call from the scene of the crash at 10:52
a.m.
Jones told jurors he remembers approaching a traffic light –
he couldn't say which one – and the light going from green to yellow to
red. He remembers hitting his brakes.
"The brakes seemed to
malfunction," he said. "I could hear metal on metal. I tried to apply
the brakes, but it did nothing to slow the vehicle."
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