Black Thunder Accident at LOTO

[Serious News]

Two injured when boat runs aground; driver arrested

LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — Two people were injured—one of them seriously—when a boat crashed into the shore early Saturday morning.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a 1990 Black Thunder runabout, being driven by 28-year-old Christina Henry of Dupo, Ill. was headed west at a high rate of speed at about 2:10 a.m. on Saturday. The boat ran aground at the 37.5 Mile Marker; in the crash, 31-year-old Reggie Allen of Dupo, Ill. and 26-year-old Erica Bagley of Alton, Ill. were injured. Allen’s injuries were classified as serious. Both were taken by ambulance to Lake Regional Hospital for treatment.

The boat sustained extensive damage and sat partially submerged in the Lake until it was later towed.

Henry was arrested on pending charges of driving without a boater’s education certificate, traveling above the nighttime speed limit, and Boating While Intoxicated, which includes two counts of Assault With a Vessel.

She is being held at Camden County Jail without bond.



http://lakeexpo.com/news/lake_news/a...a4bcf887a.html

[old377guy]

Yikes

[Wrinkleface]

not good

[fund razor]

Some info on the salvage and more pics.

http://laketow.blogspot.com/

[phragle]

This is what happens when you let the little blonde bartender chick drive your big fast boat at closing time....

[fund razor]

By "little" I assume he means short.

[rschap1]

[Ratickle]

By "little" I assume he means short.

Are one of those really the driver at the time of the accident?

[phragle]

The blondish round one was the driver....

[Ratickle]

I have not heard anything new. Anyone?

I assume it's a total?

[fund razor]

I'm surprised that there hasn't been much more about this. Pretty shady deal all around.
Locals say Allen was driving and Henry is taking the wrap to keep him on the street. (She works for Allen's mom.) But threads keep disappearing on the Dupo forum.
This one's an hour old.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/dupo...705R10CKUVDNE1

[Bobcat]

What the hell is that website ? (Dupo) Strangest one I've visited....never heard of this guy before...another Big Cat Cove dude ?

[fund razor]

No. Not a big cat cove dude.
Dupo is a small town of like 3,000 outside East St. Louis.

https://www.facebook.com/reggie.allen.545

Which one do you think was driving? We'll never know.
But hey, she's a lucky girl. Imagine being the driver on a hard, shore grounding at speed and not getting hurt.

[Ratickle]

If she wasn't driving, and the cops believe that is true, she'll crack...

[Ratickle]

He seems like such a nice person.....

Reggie Allen: Indicted for Killing of Anthony Rice Outside East St. Louis Bar in 2009


By Chad Garrison Fri., Jun. 3 2011 at 3:35 PM

Allen has been charged with some 20 felonies in the past.

​Exactly nineteen months after the crime, a Dupo, Illinois, man was indicted today in connection with the killing of Anthony Rice.

Rice was outside an East St. Louis bar called City Nights in the wee hours of October 3, 2009, when he was struck by a pickup truck and left for dead following a confrontation in the tavern's parking lot.

Today 27-year-old Reggie Allen -- son of the City Nights owner and a man with a lengthy rap sheet for other crimes -- was charged with a single count of reckless homicide, a Class-3 felony. Bond was set at $500,000, according to the St. Clair County Circuit Court.

As Riverfront Times reported in a January cover story, Allen has long been suspected of being motivated -- at least partly -- by racial hostility. Allen is white. Rice is black. People involved in the altercation apparently hurled racial insults at Rice before his death.

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dai...thony_rice.php

[fund razor]

If she wasn't driving, and the cops believe that is true, she'll crack...

No she won't. This is Dupo. Think about it. 3,000 people. That doesn't even qualify for small town status. One high school.
He's the best thing that will ever happen to her.

[Ratickle]

If he's the best thing,

On June 3, a grand jury in St. Clair County indicted Reggie Allen for reckless homicide. They believed he used a pickup truck to mow down Anthony Rice outside an East St. Louis bikini bar back in October 2009 (check out our January cover story, "Left for Dead").

Since being indicted, Allen has turned himself in. The grand jury apparently wanted to keep him under lock and key, recommending a $500,000 bond -- a hefty sum for that charge in that county.

But he's already walking free.

On Friday, Allen and his lawyer, Tom Daley, appeared before a judge, seeking to lower his bond.

Two factors need to be weighed, the judge said: (1) whether Allen is a flight risk, and (2) whether he's a danger to the community.

St. Clair County assistant state's attorney Joseph Christ had nothing to suggest Allen was a flight risk.

But was he a danger to those around him, the judge asked? Christ referred to Allen as an "ongoing problem" in Metro East, mentioning his four prior felony convictions (Christ glossed over the dismissals of sixteen other felonies, plus several lesser-but-still-violent offenses).

Yet in this particular case, the judge wanted to know, if the state considered Allen such a danger, why did it take them seventeen months to indict him?

Thorough investigations take time, Christ suggested; for example, a blood sample had been taken from the front bumper of Allen's F-150 pickup truck, and only recently did the DNA test come back showing a match to Anthony Rice.

"I'm not critical of police agencies of being thorough," the judge said. "But from your and Mr. Daley's comments, there's no indication of any additional reckless acts since October 3, 2009" -- the date of Rice's death.

Christ could've responded that, in fact, Allen has run afoul of the law twice since the City Nights incident:

•Allen was arrested for (and subsequently pleaded guilty to) reckless driving in Lee County, Florida on April 29, 2010.
•He was charged with aggravated battery for an incident that happened in Cahokia, Illinois, on September 15, 2010.

But Christ didn't seem aware of these facts, and the judge wasn't convinced. He cut down Allen's bond by more than half, setting it at $200,000, according to the circuit clerk's office.

Attorney Justin Meehan, an uncle of the victim Anthony Rice, was reportedly irate. Believing Christ hadn't properly prepared for the hearing, Meehan confronted the prosecutor in a heated exchange -- which ended up with the bailiffs threatening to throw Meehan out of the building.

According to court records, Allen has posted bond and has been released from jail.

"We don't expect to get any justice from the criminal court over in Belleville," Meehan says. "It looks like it's just business as usual over there."

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dai...nd_hearing.php

[rschap1]

Stay classy Dupo

[Ratickle]

I can understand why the Uncle was pissed!!

[fund razor]

If she wasn't driving, and the cops believe that is true, she'll crack...

You win. She is out and has unfriended him.