SOMEBODY OUGHT TO GET FIRED FOR THAT, AND MAYBE WILL

By Bob Walsh

 

 

In CA it is expressly illegal to tow a car with a person in it.  I mention that because it seems that Monica Cameroni de Adams, 65, died in the back of her mini-Van following an accident when the van was towed and impounded without anybody bothering to check for occupants.

Ms. de Adams was homeless and living in her van when a DUI plowed into the parked van in San Diego on November 5 of last year.  She was injured but her injuries might very well have been survivable had she been discovered as she should have been and provided with medical attention.  She was visible in the middle row of seat had anybody bothered to look.  The body was not discovered until December 6, when she started to smell bad and a yard worked noticed. 

Her two adult children are suing the city of San Diego, the Police Department and Roadway Towing & Impound plus other individuals for $50 million.  She had been the subject of a missing persons case, filed by her children. Her cause of death was blunt force trauma.  The drunk driver, Jordan Loepz, is being charged only with DUI causing injury and not vehicular homicide.