Man who pleaded guilty (left); woman he was having sex with who died in crash (left)
It’d be too callous to belittle this as a case of a Minnesota man sexing a woman to death. This, because it’s a case of a man driving distracted-by-sex, crashing into another vehicle and killing two people. To wit:
Yesterday, Mark Chalin, 24, pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal vehicular homicide in connection with the August 7, 2011 deaths of Amber Menezes, 23, and Jonna Martin, 35.
Chalin was allegedly driving and having sex with Menezes when he crossed the center line on Blue Earth County Road 90 and slammed into a vehicle driven by Martin. Both Martin and Menezes died. Chalin suffered 26 broken bones, a damaged bladder, and spent 45 days in the hospital, but survived.
Investigators concluded Chalin was distracted, inattentive, and had his vision obscured at the time of the crash. He was charged in February.