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IT WAS; HOWEVER, PREVENTIBLE.
PROSECUTORS SAY THE COMBINATION
OF DRUGS AND RECKLESS DRIVING.
>> THAT IMPACT SPEED WAS
ESTIMATED AT 81 MILES PER HOUR.
REID: RESULTED IN THE VIOLENT
MARCH 16 COLLISION THAT KILLED
>> MANSLAUGHTER, MANSLAUGHTER BY
MOTOR VEHICLE, MOTOR VEHICLE
REID: WORCESTER COUNTY DA,
JOSEPH EARLY LISTED SIX CHARGES
ON WHICH DAVID NJUGUNA WAS
INDICTED TODAY.
LANES OF TRAFFIC ON THE MASS
PIKE BEFORE DRIVING HIS NISSAN
MAXIMA INTO THE BACK OF A
CRUISER IN WHICH TROOPER THOMAS
CLARDY WAS SITTING.
PROSECUTORS SAY NJUGUNA WAS HIGH
AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH AN HOUR
BEFORE,
CIGARETTES FROM A MEDICAL
DISPENSARY.
>> A SEARCH OF THE VEHICLE
CONTAINERS CONTAINING A
MARIJUANA CIGARETTE WAS MISSING
FROM THE VEHICLE AND THERE WAS A
PARTIALLY SMOKED MARIJUANA
CIGARETTE IN THE VEHICLE.
REID: NJUGUNA'S ATTORNEY DENIES
HIS CLIENT WAS IMPAIRED SAYS HE
DOESN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE EVENTS
OF THAT MORNING.
>> HE DOES NOT KNOW WHY HE FOUND
HIMSELF ON THE MASS TURNPIKE
GOING IN THE DIRECTION HE W
GOING.
HE HAS NO MEMORY OF HOW THE
ACCIDENT OCCURRED ITSELF.
REID: TROOPER CLARDY WAS 44
MARRIED AND HAD SEVEN CHILDREN.
HE JOINED THE STATE POLICE IN
2005.
>> DESPITE OUR EFFORTS WITHIN
OUR STATE POLICE FAMILY TO HELP
THEM, EFFORTS THAT WILL NEVER
END, WE KNOW THE HOLE IN THEIR
LOVING FAMILY BY TOM'S DEATH CAN
NEVER BE FILLE
REID: PROSECUTORS ASKED THE
JUDGE TO HOLD HIM WITHOUT BAIL.
HIS ATTORNEY ASKED FOR A BAIL
THEY SET IT HALF MILLION CASH.