Accident Reconstruction Experts Disagree On Fatal Crash

Accident reconstruction experts in the manslaughter trial of Ryan Hurd, 23, were asked to determine who was driving a car that was traveling at nearly 100 mph at the time of a 2007 crash.  The speeding car flipped, crashed and burned, killing one occupant and injuring two others south of New Vineyard, ME.  MorningSentinel.com reports:

Richard Hartley, the attorney defending Ryan Hurd, 23, of Lincoln, contends his client was in the front passenger seat and that the man who died, Terry Richardson Jr., 34, of Dover-Foxcroft, was driving Hurd's car at the time of the accident...  Prosecution expert Wade Bartlett said the passenger could not have been thrown out of the driver's side window because he would have been unable to bypass the driver and the steering column before the vehicle flipped over.