Wednesday, July 14, 1999
Who was driver? Hair, blood taken from wreck
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — Kenton County detectives spent part of Sunday afternoon pulling hairs from the windshield of a wrecked Mustang — an unusual step to determine who was driving the car when it crashed.
Investigators think Timothy Ryan of Covington was behind the wheel of his own car when it crashed June 20 on Ky. 16. But to be sure, they pulled out the hairs and scraped flakes of dried blood from the driver's side of the 1970 red Mustang.
“It's just an issue of making sure,” said Capt. Ed Butler. “We want to make sure the person we think is the driver actually was behind the wheel. It is a little unusual to do it.”
Both Mr. Ryan and his passenger, Brian Whalen, were hurt in the wreck. So was a passenger in the van the Mustang hit, according to a search warrant for the hairs and blood filed by Detective Tim Scheidt.
All three are recovering from injuries. No charges have been filed.
A witness to the accident who was headed north on Ky. 16 at the time told police the Mustang passed him and another car. The car was being driven erratically, the man said, and too fast.
Detective Scheidt said he since has determined that the Mustang left the road briefly, then came back up on the road and hit the van.
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