Witness: Cars racing at 100 mph
By Gary L. Wright
gwright@charlotteobserver.com
By Gary L. Wright The Charlotte Observer
Posted: Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2011
Modified: Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2011 Stasko
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Karl Smith recalled in court Wednesday how he was driving on N.C. 49 on April 4, 2009 when two cars blew past him.
Smith told the Mecklenburg jurors that he was traveling about 70 mph. The two cars that passed him, he said, were going at least 100 mph.
Moments later, Smith came upon a wreck involving one of the cars that had passed him. Smith also spotted a Mercedes on its side and went to help. Inside, he spotted a woman.
"I tried to talk to her," Smith recalled..."I didn't get a vocal response at all."
Asked by a prosecutor about the woman's condition, Smith replied: "Dead on arrival."
Smith was one of several prosecution witnesses who have testified that they saw two cars racing at speeds up to 100 mph along N.C. 49 before the wreck that killed a woman, her 2-year-old daughter and a teenager.
Tyler Stasko is charged with three counts of second-degree murder.
Prosecutors say Stasko's Mitsubishi Eclipse was traveling at least 86 mph when it struck the Mercedes driven by Cynthia Furr.
Furr, a 45-year-old Winthrop University professor, and her daughter, McAllister, were killed. Thirteen-year-old Hunter Holt, a passenger in Stasco's car, also died.
Stasko, 23, and Carlene Atkinson, 47, are accused of racing when the Mercedes was struck while entering N.C. 49 from the RiverPointe neighborhood near Lake Wylie.
Atkinson's black Chevrolet Camaro wasn't involved in the wreck, but she, too, is charged with three counts of second-degree murder. Her trial date has not been set.
During testimony Wednesday, Lori Savio told jurors she saw an Eclipse smash into the Mercedes.
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I can't speak for Tyler but I know that Carlene has no value for others. She has destroyed my friends marriage, over the past year. She has been having an affair with my friend's husband that she met while waiting his table at lunch. Guess she was waiting more than tables!!! That's why she is now seperated from her husband. I don't understand how she could destroy another family with her irresponsible actions. Hope she gets the maximum!!! Friend's husband is a jerk too!!!
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