VILLANUEVA: Bien, we have video of him entering the vehicle, driving, obeying all the rules of the road, and up to the point where Hawthorne Boulevard going northbound there’s a straightaway that starts going downhill then it curves to the right. And at the time of the first contact with the center median, he was going between 84 y 87 miles an hour, and that speed is unsafe for the road conditions. So that is the first cause. The second is, he went in a straight line where the roaded to the right and then by the time he crossed the median, hit the side, hit the west side of the road, the curb and a tree, he was going about 75 miles an hour. So this is evidence that came out of the black box.
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According to the investigator, that suggested at the time he made the first collision and in a panic, he pressed down what he thought was a brake. Looks like it was the accelerator itself. That’s why you had the 99-plus on the accelerator side and zero on the braking side.
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