US police may charge driver as tenth victim dies

ONE day after an 86-year-old man lost control of his car and barreled for three blocks through a crowded street market in Santa Monica, USA the number of dead rose to 10 on Thursday as police weighed possible charges against the driver.

US police may charge driver as tenth victim dies

Among those killed at the popular farmers’ market in Santa Monica, a beach suburb of Los Angeles, were a three-year-old girl, a 7-month-old boy, a married couple, and the daughter-in-law of actor Dennis Weaver.

At least three dozen others were hurt, 15 of them critically, when the maroon Buick LeSabre driven by George Russell Weller crashed through wooden sawhorses and careened down the closed-off street.

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