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On 19 Apr 2022, bruce bowser <bruce2bowser@gmail.com> posted some news:fa702091-e714-4a3c-b752-79c3a1ebd8c7n@googlegroups.com:

Send this murdering Democrat whore to jail for the rest of her life.

Injuries to Mark Iskander’s 11-year-old body matched damage found on
Rebecca Grossman’s SUV, investigators testified at her murder trial this
week.

Mark and his brother Jacob, 8, were struck and killed while in a
Westlake Village crosswalk on Sept. 29, 2020, according to earlier
witness testimony. They were crossing Triunfo Canyon Road with their mom
and younger brother shortly after 7 p.m.

A webbed pattern of injuries on the back of Mark's thighs was "almost an
exact match" to the grille on Grossman's Mercedes SUV, a forensic
pathologist said on the stand in the Van Nuys courtroom.

Grossman, 60, of Hidden Hills, faces two counts of second-degree murder,
two counts of vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run driving. She has
pleaded not guilty to all counts.

The prosecution says she was driving 73 mph when she struck the boys.
The speed limit on the road is 45 mph. She didn’t stop until the
Mercedes crash safety features cut off the fuel, prosecutors have said.

Grossman’s defense team has told jurors another Mercedes SUV hit the
boys first. Her attorneys say Mark and Jacob were hit by multiple
vehicles and were outside of the crosswalk at the time of the crash.

Mark's injuries match Mercedes grille

Earlier this week, Dr. Matthew Miller, a Los Angeles County deputy
medical examiner, testified about the boys' injuries. Autopsy photos
were shown on monitors in the courtroom.

Both Mark and Jacob had multiple broken bones, said Miller, who
performed autopsies on the boys. Mark had fractures to his right arm,
pelvis, right leg, skull and spine.

Regarding the web of markings on the back of Mark's legs, Miller said it
looked like the same pattern of the grille. But he could not say that
they were made by Grossman's vehicle, he said.

Mark likely was knocked unconscious and died within minutes if not
seconds, the forensic pathologist said.

Jacob also had multiple fractures and a spinal cord injury near his
skull that would have caused instant paralysis below his head, he said.
He was taken by ambulance to the Los Robles Regional Medical Center in
Thousand Oaks where he was later pronounced dead.

In his experience, Miller said, the injuries are common with a
pedestrian being hit by a single vehicle and when a pedestrian is struck
by a vehicle at a high rate of speed, he said.

Under cross examination, however, Miller told lead defense attorney Tony
Buzbee that he could not rule out multiple cars hit either of the boys.

SUV black box records speed, braking
Seconds before the crash, Grossman floored the gas pedal, pressing down
nearly as far as it could go, said Michael Hale, an investigator in the
Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

She accelerated to 81 mph, Hale said. Then, she took her foot off the
gas just under two seconds before the crash. Hale described what he
called “light braking” over the next second. At the time of the crash,
her speed was recorded at 73 mph.

The information gets stored in the vehicle’s event data recorder, which
is part of the airbag system in the Mercedes, according to Hale. When
the airbags are deployed, the device stores five seconds before the
crash.

The device also stores the vehicle’s mileage and total driving time.
Recorded data for Grossman's SUV showed a low number for the total
driving time. Using that figure and the total mileage, the average speed
would have been over 560 mph, Buzbee said.

Hale called the low driving time number an anomaly, saying that it is a
known issue that has happened with other vehicles. Likely something
causes the operating time to reset, he said.

But that doesn't affect the recorded crash data and does not invalidate
those results, Hale said. Laws regulate how the crash data is recorded,
he said.

Cheri Carlson covers the environment and county government for the
Ventura County Star. Reach her at cheri.carlson@vcstar.com or
805-437-0260.

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2024/02/08/rebecca-grossman-murder-tria l-witnesses-testify-about-boys-injuries/72458497007/

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