What To Know About Bradley Caraway Accident? Key Details Revealed

A look at “What To Know About Bradley Caraway Accident?” Several medical examiners and police investigators testified during the four-day trial, and the jury took more than four hours to reach a verdict.

Even though Caraway was found guilty, he was free to go. He was locked up at home for six years while he awaited his sentencing. He was also found guilty of careless homicide, not murder.

For the low-level crime, Caraway faced up to five years in prison, but he was given credit for time spent on house arrest.

We wish Shanae (was) here, but we know she doesn’t, said Commonwealth’s Attorney Gerina Whethers. “It has been a very, very troubling and emotional seven years for the family.”

The Fatal Crash: What To Know About Bradley Caraway Accident?

A police report says Caraway, who was 34 at the time of the accident, was drunk when he crashed the car he and Moorman were in early in the morning of August 2016.

The police reported that Moorman was the only person there when they arrived. She had been thrown from the car, which was now on top of her. She died from her injuries.

The jury heard from Dr. Bill Smock, a former medical examiner who specializes in medical evidence, and Dr. Jeffrey Springer, who performed Moorman’s autopsy, on Tuesday.

Based on evidence like window glass in Caraway’s hair and seatbelt marks that showed he was restrained and didn’t fly out of the car, his investigation in 2016 proved that Caraway was the driver.

The Autopsy Report: Dr. Jeffrey Springer’s Insights

Moorman’s autopsy was done by a medical expert named Springer. He said that she died because she choked on her own blood after the crash. He said that blunt force injuries is often what kills people in car accidents, but that was not the case with Moorman.

Instead, he said that she died because she couldn’t breathe after being pinned under the car. This is what “traumatic asphyxia” means. Moorman also had broken ribs, Springer said.

Springer’s evidence was very important because it answered the question of whether or not Caraway could have saved Moorman by pulling her out of the water.

“Asphyxia is the lack of oxygen in the body or the inability of the body to use oxygen,” he said. “There are multiple causes of asphyxia: traumatic asphyxia is one of those, and that is due to the compression of the body by an object that prevents the diaphragm and the ribs from rising and therefore bringing in air, and thus no oxygen.”

Caraway’s Role in the Crash

Caraway’s defense team, which was led by attorney Rob Eggert, said that Caraway wasn’t driving the car when it crashed. Wednesday, an expert on crashes tried to show that. Henry Cease, a 20-year veteran of the Kentucky State Police who used to work there, was called to the stand as an expert on how crashes happen.

“There is truth to be had in this case, there is science,” said Eggert after the jurors returned Thursday’s verdict. “There are facts, there is proof, there is DNA. The truth is to be found in the evidence.”

Caraway was found walking along I-265 without a shirt or shoes hours after the crash. Police said that his blood alcohol level was at least twice as high as what is allowed by law.

“A person should never drive a car if their blood-alcohol level is twice the legal limit. They should not drive at 83 miles per hour, and they should not drive with an unbelted passenger,” said Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Andrew Daley. “We have proven the defendant did all of those things.”

Caraway’s Drunk Driving and Survival

The government said that Caraway was driving drunk, that he was wearing his seatbelt, that he survived the crash, and that he walked away.

Cease said that after looking at all of the Louisville Metro Police papers and medical forensics, he thought Caraway was in the passenger seat, wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, and was thrown out of the car first.

He thought that Moorman slipped out of his seatbelt at the end of the rolling crash, which he said is possible during rollovers. The prosecution brought back Lt. Clarence Beauford of the LMPD to testify again. He said that wasn’t true.

“We work a number of rollover collisions — and weekly they occur here in Louisville — and many, many, many times, a restrained occupant is still inside of that restraint as that rollover occurs,” Beauford said.

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