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CHP officer remains in critical condition week after accident
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More from Other NewsCalifornia Highway Patrol Officer Anthony Pedeferri remained in intensive care Wednesday, a week after he was critically injured when a man suspected of driving under the influence hit him as he was making a routine traffic stop on Highway 101 near Faria Beach, authorities said.
Pedeferri, an 11-year veteran of the CHP and an accomplished triathlete, was in stable but critical condition Wednesday, said Officer Shawna Davison, a spokeswoman for the CHP.
Davison declined to provide further information about Pedeferri's condition because he had specified, prior to the accident, that he did not want medical details released to the public if he was hurt, she said.
Pedeferri was critically injured when a pickup truck driven by Jeremy White, 20, of Paso Robles, drifted onto the shoulder of Highway 101 near La Conchita about 4:30 p.m. Dec. 19, where it struck a sport utility vehicle Pedeferri had pulled over during a routine stop.
The driver of the SUV, 21-year-old Andreas Parra of Phoenix, was killed. Pedeferri, 36, was knocked about 20 yards into the brush on the side of the highway.
White is facing charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, felony drunken driving and causing injury, and transportation of marijuana, authorities said last week. He is being held in the Ventura County Jail on $500,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 7.
Posted by lori on December 28, 2007 at 12:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
These situations are so sickening. You have a guy who is an underage drinker and has pot in his truck who has left one person dead with a family who will never be the same again and another one of our officers injured while on duty, and who will have to live with what has happened to him yet the guy responsible for this will be able to sit in a warm jail cell (roof over his head) with 3 meals a day and all the benefits the jails provide to these monsters nowadays. Our system is so backwards. We need to go back to "old school" ways and punish these criminals for their wrong doing...not condone it and give them the luxury of getting away with murder so to speak. My heart goes out to the victims family as well as to Officer Pedeferri and I pray he gets a full recovery soon.
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