TOUR BUS DRIVER DWI, DRAGS PEDESTRIAN IN FATAL ACCIDENT
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Injury Accident Lawyer)
Who: A tour run by Chinatown operator L & L Travel, but a bus belonging to TraveLynx of Cocoa, Florida., which employed one Steve Drappel.
What: Timothy White, age 29, of Philadelphia was struck and dragged under the rear wheels of a tour bus. At the time he was walking eastbound across Ninth Avenue. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital and there pronounced dead.
When: Saturday May 7, 2011
Where: Manhattan, Ninth Avenue and West 47th Street
Why: Drappel failed a Breathalyzer test with a blood alcohol of .08 - twice the legal limit of .04 for commercial drivers - and was charged with vehicular manslaughter and DWI.
How: Tour bus driver Steve Drappel, age 57, drinking vodka while driving. Sipping from silver travel mug as he drove tour bus in Manhattan. Mr. Drappel was finishing a three-hour tour through Manhattan. The bus, with some 40 tourists, had visited South Street Seaport and Rockefeller Center and had just left Times Square on its way to the airport hotels near Newark, where many of the passengers were staying, said Kevin Luong, the safety manager of L & L Travel, the Chinatown agency that organized the tour.
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