A 6-year-old boy died in an accident in November that an Indiana woman caused. She was high on methamphetamines and putting on makeup.
The 43-year-old Khristal Grant wasn’t charged until May 9 and wasn’t arrested until May 28.
It happened in Shelby County on November 9. Grant’s Chevy Tahoe crashed into the back of the Ford Explorer that James Doniven Hodges, six, was riding in with his grandparents. They were waiting to make a left turn. Winesses told the cops that the Tahoe was coming up fast and looked like it was “all over the road.”
Witnesses in a car Grant went by just before the crash said they saw the driver putting on makeup while looking into the vanity mirror of the car. One witness said she went by them so fast that their car looked like it was “standing still.”
Those people saw the accident that spun the Ford SUV into oncoming traffic, where it was hit by another car. The car that Grant was driving also hit another car. The driver and some passengers were taken to hospitals in the area, but the boy who was traveling with his grandparents was declared dead at the scene.
Court records show that Grant admitted to using meth and smoking pot “with the past few days,” but she said she hadn’t done any drugs that day. She told the police she was on her way to work and denied not paying attention while driving.
But her car’s data showed that she was going almost 70 mph 2.5 seconds before the crash and that she didn’t hit the brakes until a half second before the crash.
A drug test showed that she had more than 50 ng/mL of methamphetamine in her system, and a forensic toxicologist said that her driving “was consistent with impairment from methamphetamines.”
Grant could spend up to 12 years in jail if she is found guilty of the current charges, which include driving a car while high on drugs and causing death while driving a car while drunk. Her court case starts on August 5.
