Henry Ruggs III drove 156 mph seconds before fatal car crash, prosecutors say. In a very sad situation, News broke on Tuesday afternoon that Henry Ruggs who is now a former wide receiver in the NFL is being charged with a Felony for DUI resulting in a death.
This ESPN article does a very good job of describing the situation by saying, “Former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was driving 156 mph with a blood-alcohol content twice Nevada’s legal limit before his car slammed into the rear of a vehicle that burned, killing a 23-year-old woman, according to prosecutors.
Ruggs had his initial court appearance Wednesday on felony charges of driving under the influence of alcohol resulting in death and reckless driving that could get him up to 26 years in state prison if he is convicted. He was cut late Tuesday, just hours after the crash, his hospitalization and his booking into a Las Vegas jail.
Prosecutors said Ruggs was traveling 156 mph two seconds before the crash and was at 127 mph when the air bags deployed in his vehicle. Judge Joe M. Bonaventure responded that he couldn’t recall speeds that high involved in a crash during his career on the bench.”
The article wraps up by giving the read Ruggs’ NFL stats which will Probably be his final stats of his career.
The stats disappeared from later rewrites of the story, so, yeah, he’s done.
No discussion of the tragic nature of this story? The end of a promising athletic career?