State v. Gorham, Ca2006-08-195 (11-13-2007)

OPINION

{¶ 1} Appellant, Valdon Gorham, appeals his conviction in the Butler County Court of Common Pleas for vehicular assault.

{¶ 2} In the early morning hours of Christmas Day in 2004, after a snowfall, appellant was driving a Jeep Cherokee in the northbound lane of Hamilton Cleves Road near Ross, Ohio. A Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck driven by Timothy Caine and containing four additional passengers was traveling in the southbound lane. The vehicles collided. Most of the occupants suffered head injuries and lacked sufficient recollection of the accident to provide an account of the collision.…