The cause of the fatal accident? The driver browsed a porn site

A California driver, Christine Chao (44), is charged with manslaughter after her phone records showed she accessed the porn site XVideos less than two minutes before a deadly chain-reaction crash in Utah that killed a 66-year-old passenger. The causal link has not yet been proven.

A California driver, Christine Chao (44), is charged with manslaughter in a road accident after her phone records showed she accessed the porn site XVideos less than two minutes before a deadly chain-reaction crash in Utah. The accident, which occurred on June 12 on Interstate 15 near the town of Levan, killed Scott LaVar Litchfield (66), a passenger in a white sedan that was rear-ended by Chao's SUV. The impact pushed the car into another SUV, and all three vehicles veered off the road. Chao told police the accident was her fault, and no skid marks were found at the scene. The indictment states that Chao accessed the site less than two minutes before the collision, but it is unclear if she was watching a video at the time of impact. She is charged with manslaughter while using a mobile electronic device, a second-degree felony in Utah. The headline implies direct causation, but the article emphasizes that the causal link has not yet been proven.

The cause of the fatal accident? The driver browsed a porn site