The police concluded that Ms. Leingang had been speeding.
Troopers Hogan and Kenna told investigators that they had stopped the van because the driver had been speeding.
Mr. Taylor was charged with criminally negligent homicide after it was determined that he had been speeding, the police said.
The car had been speeding when it suddenly lurched forward, as happens in cases of unintended acceleration.
One woman wrote "thanks for saving my life," saying she had been speeding but slowed down after seeing the sign.
But speed alone is generally not enough to bring criminal charges, and the police did not initially find that Mr. Himon had been speeding.
Gregor even had the presence of mind, afterward, to go around to the local police and explain why he had been speeding and careening through stop signs.
Pulled over by a plump, pink-faced officer, I was told that I had been speeding and that I would need to pay a fine of 100 hryvnia.
As to whether his death had been speeded up, even a tiny bit, she said philosophically, "There was no way of knowing".
They run the light through a fiber in which the wavelengths that had been sped up are slowed down and those that had been slowed down are sped up, so the gap closes.
He had come out at school a few months beforehand and had been speed-dating middle school boys that fall.
