State v. Dye, Unpublished Decision (4-28-1999)

Defendant-appellant Eric Dye appeals from the Jefferson County Common Pleas Court's denial of his suppression motion and from the sentence which was rendered after appellant pled no contest to ten counts of aggravated vehicular assault. For the following reasons, the decision of the trial court is affirmed.

I. STATEMENT OF FACTS

On March 31, 1996, as appellant was driving west on Route 22 in Jefferson County, he hit a guardrail which caused his hood to fold up and his air bag to deploy. His vehicle then swerved into the median and came to a stop. A passerby ("the Clark vehicle") traveling in…