Student to be charged in Halberstam’s death
Prosecutors have determined that David Halberstam’s student driver was responsible for the accident that killed the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and plan to charge him with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, the San Mateo County district attorney’s office said Thursday.
Interviews with witnesses and evidence from the scene showed that Kevin Jones made an illegal left turn into the path of a car that had the green light when it crashed into the passenger side of the vehicle in which Halberstam was riding, Dist. Atty. James Fox said.
Jones, 26, a graduate student in journalism at UC Berkeley, was driving Halberstam to an interview with football legend Y.A. Tittle when the accident occurred in Menlo Park, south of San Francisco.
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