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DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE MURDER CONVICTION AFFIRMED; DURING A POLICE CHASE, DEFENDANT DROVE THE WRONG WAY ON A HIGHWAY AND CRASHED HEAD-ON INTO AN ONCOMING CAR (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department determined the evidence supported defendant’s depraved indifference murder conviction stemming from his driving the wrong way on a highway and crashing into an oncoming car during a police chase:

While fleeing from the police, defendant drove 14 blocks against oncoming traffic on the West Side Highway, a major roadway, despite openings in the median between the north and southbound lanes, while running several red lights and driving onto the curb and sidewalk. Additionally, defendant did not avail himself of parking lots and driveways on the west side of the Highway, where he could have pulled off to avoid any collision with an oncoming vehicle. Heading north, the Highway merges into, and becomes, the Henry Hudson Parkway at the intersection of 57th Street. Instead of utilizing the last available opportunity to turn into the north bound lanes, defendant made the decision to continue driving in the wrong direction and entered onto the Parkway. It is unrefuted that the Parkway had no breaks in the median through which he could return to the northbound lanes and that oncoming cars were going even faster there than on the Highway because the speed limit increased from 35 mph to 50 mph. After he got on the Parkway, defendant remained in the lane immediately to the left of the concrete barrier separating the northbound and southbound lanes, made no effort to change lanes or to swerve to avoid oncoming vehicles and made no effort to stop or slow down, despite the fact that he was now on a parkway. He continued driving this way on the Parkway for seven blocks at which time he collided, head-on, with a vehicle driving in the proper direction in the southbound lane. People v Herrera, 2022 NY Slip Op 00949, First Dept 2-10-22

 

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