Lawyer: Suspect in fatal van crash may have confused gas, brake
Quick ReadThe attorney for Kayla Gerdes said her inexperience behind the wheel probably contributed to the crash, but police have said Gerdes was high on painkillers.
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Police talk to a woman after a fatal accident in which a van crashed into a home on Cathedral Avenue Tuesday morning. (April 20, 2010)
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A Freeport teenager may have mistaken the accelerator pedal for the brake in the moments before she ran over and killed a Hempstead woman mowing her lawn, the suspect's attorney said Thursday.
John Lewis, the attorney for Kayla Gerdes, said her inexperience behind the wheel probably contributed to the crash, but police have said Gerdes was high on painkillers and that she took the wheel because...
