A 19-year-old has been charged with two counts of DUI-manslaughter, two counts of vehicular homicide, and four counts of DUI-damage after police say his car struck and killed two pedestrians in October.

The victims were standing on the shoulder of the road about 2:20 a.m. when they were hit by a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by the teen. The crash report states that the driver lost control of the vehicle and hit a city bus stop bench, a parked car, and then the pedestrians. The crash caused the jeep to flip and both victims were thrown to the ground. They died at the scene. The teen and his passenger were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Investigators calculated the vehicle was traveling at 78 mph in a 45 mph zone.

The negligent driver consented to a blood test while in the hospital which revealed that he had 0.085 grams, above the legal limit. He also tested positive for marijuana. He is being held on $280,000 bail.

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Fiat Chrysler’s decision to limit the recall is now hitting the headlines. One of the vehicles that the company declined to recall, a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee, was involved in a rear-end collision in which the fuel tank caught fire, killing a four-year-old boy who was strapped into a booster seat in the back seat. The family has filed a lawsuit in their home state of Georgia, and the judge in the case has just ordered the CEO of Fiat Chrysler submit to a deposition.

In the Jeep Liberty and Grand Cherokee models that Fiat Chrysler was asked to recall, the fuel tank is found between the rear axle and the bumper. This poses a problem because it can be punctured in a rear-end collision. According to the NHTSA, at least 51 people have died because a rear end collision in these vehicles caused a tank fire.

Fiat Chrysler still has not issued a wider mandatory recall, nor has it admitted that the fuel tanks may pose an unreasonable danger to car occupants. In commenting on the Georgia lawsuit, a company representative shifted the blame for the fire that caused the toddler’s death onto the driver of the pickup truck that rear-ended the Jeep, which was stopped at an intersection.

The lawsuit over the toddler’s death was filed in the Superior Court of Decatur County, Georgia. News of the ruling compelling the CEO of Chrysler Fiat to participate in a deposition was first reported in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News.

By Richard LaGarde