Crash experts question Ravnsborg's car-deer explanation and raise concerns of distracted driving
An experienced traffic-accident reconstruction expert is casting doubt on the claim made by South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg that he thought he hit a deer with his car the night of Sept. 12 when in fact he had struck and killed a man.
Kurt Weiss is a mechanical engineer who has 34 years of experience in reconstructing hundreds of car accidents and is the owner of Case Study Collision Science, a California forensic research firm. Weiss is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction and has worked on cases for government agencies and clients in civil and criminal trials.
After viewing an image of the site where Ravnsborg hit and killed 55-year-old Joseph Boever, reading articles about the incident and viewing a photo of Ravsnborg’s vehicle taken after the crash, Weiss said it is highly improbable that Ravnsborg would not have known he’d hit a man unless he was distracted and not looking at the road at the time of the collision.
Ravnsborg struck and killed Boever at 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 12 on U.S. Highway 14 just west of Highmore, S.D. on his way back from a political event in Redfield.
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It will be a travesty of justice if this man truly gets away with murder. 
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Photo of car believed to be involved in crash submitted by viewer to KELOLAND News | Photo of Ravnsborg vehicle from Facebook
The fucking guy jammed on his brakes to the point where there were skid marks on an ABS system.
And look at the wide view of the roadway and shoulder. It wasn't like crops grew to the shoulder.
Perhaps it's the camera angle, but that skid mark looks pretty long and curving to the right shows that the car was either pulled right from the impact, she had control issues, he was pulling over or a mixture of the above.
The skid marks at the scene of the accident on U.S. 14 west of Highmore appear to show that right tire of the car driven by South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was on the shoulder of the road and not in the travel lane when braking began. Photo: Nick Lowrey, South Dakota News Watch
The image he posted is nowhere representative of the area where the crash occurred. Not sure what his point was.
This image, posted to the Facebook page of South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg on Oct. 8, 2019, appears to have been taken by Ravnsborg while he was driving. In the post, Ravnsborg wrote: “I spend many hours behind the wheel traveling our great state, so I thought I would show you some of my great views and take more pictures of South Dakota as I travel.” Photo: Facebook
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg would have driven past this vehicle parked in the ditch on his way back to Pierre after the fatal pedestrian accident on Sept. 12. The truck, which became disabled after Joseph Boever had an accident earlier that day, is believed to be the destination that Boever was heading to or from at the time Ravnsborg struck and killed him along U.S. Highway 14. Photo: Courtesy Dakota News Now
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