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TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011
Volume 10 Issue 247
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Hundreds of SMMUSD students still unvaccinated BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE As of the start of school, several hundred Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District students will not have received the state-required vaccine against whooping cough. The disease reached epidemic proportions in 2010, killing four infants, and SEE VACCINE PAGE 10
Driver arrested for allegedly running down bike rider BY KEVIN HERRERA Editor in Chief
BARNARD WAY In what a bicycle blogger called a clear case of road rage, a driver was arrested last week for allegedly driving his car into a cyclist riding on the 2600 block of Barnard Way. Santa Monica ADAMS police said Jeffrey Ray Adams, 41, of Los Angeles, was arrested for felony assault with a deadly weapon on Thursday, Aug. 26 at approximately 6:24 p.m. He was later released on $30,000 bail. He is expected to be arraigned Sept. 26. Adams was driving south on Barnard Way alongside the cyclist when the two began arguing. Allegedly Adams cut off the cyclist, making a hard left from the right lane SEE ARREST PAGE 8
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FROM THE SKY: Parts of a small plane rest in the backyard of a home Monday on 21st Street near the Santa Monica Airport.
Plane crashes into home Craft was trying to land at SMO; pilot suffers possible broken leg BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD
plane crashed just where they’d been standing, Audatat said. “We were very lucky,” he said. The plane then hit a cinderblock wall in the back of the house, which took most of the impact, authorities said. A fourth man, whose first name is Luis, was in the back of the house at the time of the incident. He sustained minor injuries, possibly from being hit by debris that resulted from the impact, said Capt. Judah Mitchell of the Santa Monica Fire Department. The crash caused a small fire. One of the painters grabbed a garden hose and put out the flames, and they helped the pilot out of the plane. The pilot suffered moderate injuries,
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SUNSET PARK A small airplane crashed into an unoccupied home in the Sunset Park neighborhood Monday afternoon, injuring the pilot and a painter who was working on the house at the time of the accident. Osbaldo Audatat was one of four men painting the home located on the 3100 block of 21st Street when the plane struck at approximately 2:45 p.m. The men turned when they heard a noise, and saw a plane coming straight for them, clipping the tree in front of a nearby house before crashing. They jumped out of the way, and the
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possibly a broken ankle or leg, according to Santa Monica Airport Director Robert Trimborn. Both the pilot, who has not been identified, and the injured painter were taken to local hospitals. The painter went to Saint John’s Medical Center. It’s currently unclear where the pilot was taken. The plane was a Cessna 172 that belonged to Justice Aviation, a flight school that has been based at Santa Monica Airport for the last 20 years. Joe Justice, the owner of the school, confirmed that the plane belonged to the company, but had no further comment pending the results of investigations by the Federal SEE CRASH PAGE 9
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