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New Details Filed on Congressman’s Accident

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From Times Wire Reports

Rep. Bill Janklow told investigators he was accelerating to pass another vehicle when he rammed his car into a motorcyclist and killed him, according to a new document filed in his second-degree manslaughter case in Flandreau.

The South Dakota Republican told two state troopers and a sheriff’s deputy that he “gunned” his Cadillac to get around another vehicle coming toward him at an intersection on Aug. 16.

The statement came in an affidavit filed by the prosecution in an attempt to get Janklow’s past speeding tickets entered into evidence. But Judge Rodney Steele affirmed an earlier ruling not to allow Janklow’s driving record into his trial.

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