Officer Pedeferri

Last Thursday a judge sentenced Jeremy White to 15 years in state prison for felony DUI and vehicular manslaughter. On December 19, 2007 he was driving his truck, loaded with two dirt bikes, while under the influence of ecstasy and marijuana on highway 101 when he hit an SUV that had been pulled over by California Highway Patrol Officer Tony Pedeferri moments earlier. Upon impact the SUV, driven by 20 year-old Andreas Parra, burst into flames and Officer Pedeferri was launched about 20 feet into a dirt embankment, where he landed head first. Tony Pedeferri, a CHP motorcycle officer, was still wearing his helmet when the crash occurred which very likely saved his life.
A former dispatcher for the Ontario Police Department and a couple of Air Force police officers witnessed the crash. The police officers pulled Parra out of his burning SUV and performed CPR while the former dispatcher used the officer's motorcycle radio to call in an officer down. Despite the efforts of by-standers and paramedics, Parra was pronounced dead on scene. Officer Tony Pedeferri, an iron man tri-athlete and a father of 2 young girls, has been left paralyzed from the chest down. At the sentencing hearing Officer Pedeferri told White that he harbors no ill will towards him.

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