Now we can play that.
What if game you have a crazy driver
has been running people off the road.
What if I stayed behind it flew
by me so faster that's in my God
what if we did stop and have lunch?
Red Truck went crazy and passed
a bunch of people and. Think
what ifs linger for Frank
Snell after August 26th.
But this aftermath is just. Unbelievable.
There's just never ending when
he flew by me and then he was in and
out of traffic on a 911 that day,
trying to stop a tragedy.
Ensure that there's going to be an acronym.
Where, where did he hit you? Understand
what happened to Frank
Snell's family on August 26th?
It's important to understand what
happened three weeks earlier.
We were going camping for the weekend.
Chris Prudhomme was at a stoplight in
Woodland Park when a big silver pickup
just blew. Right by us.
Went into the median and and
just took off the park 911 with
the address of the emergency.
I'm just reporting the crazy
driver driving the large
silver RAM pickup truck.
The pursuit was on.
Westbound Hwy,
2490 miles an hour over 100 mph.
Vehicle just passes again.
A deadly serious game slowing
down of cat and mouse.
Not sure where it went
in the same truck comes by us
again, just blazing right by
that the wheel of that
dodge was Benjamin Beaubier.
The man with 11 arrests for incidents
involving alcohol or drugs.
Three DUI convictions,
two other drunken driving cases
dismissed for unexplained reasons.
A man court ordered into
treatment at least eight times.
None of it would keep him off.
The road
he's like driving like a crazy person.
I'm scared for the public honestly, neither
could his worried sister who called 911
after seeing him driving erratically.
And I'm not sure if drugs
or alcohol involved.
I really didn't have much time
to react by some miracle.
He made it right in between us,
his mirror hit my mirror,
huge, loud bang and
50 miles from where it started.
Deputies finally stopped the
silver Dodge with road spikes
were talking about weaving erratic driving
dangerous behavior on the road. Derek
Fat is a former Arapahoe County
prosecutor turned defense attorney.
Those are red flags.
Adding the calls from Beaubier sister.
His history of drunken driving,
the crash with Chris Prudhomme.
That is absolutely grounds
to at least initiate.
Or explore a DUI investigation.
But Park County deputies didn't
ask if he'd been drinking and they
didn't ask for a roadside sobriety
test or breathalyzer. The reports
indicate there was no deal.
I investigation, so to speak.
There reports indicate that the deputies
did not have any indication that the
driver was intoxicated, otherwise that
would be indicated in the report.
Instead, they jailed him for eluding
reckless driving, speeding illegal
passing and running a red light.
There were red flags.
And numerous or flags indicating
that this individual could have been
intoxicated and at least in my appraisal,
I think the police should have done
more to follow up on that. And
I think that they they
acted appropriately. Park
County Undersheriff Steve Spodie
access deputies did all they could.
They took this dangerous person
off of Colorado highways,
but a few days later Beaubier got out.
Then he bought a new truck, a red dodge
night times around the campfire
is that was precious to us.
After a week in the mountains,
just camping, fishing.
Having a good time,
they headed home on August twenty sixth half.
The family in one truck, half in another.
Frank was ten or fifteen
minutes ahead of his wife, D,
Who is driving their Blackford.
Captured here by the dash
Cam of a passing vehicle
this Thursday, so people were
getting out of the city.
Sarah Dunn was headed the other
way on U S two eighty five right
us all this red blur.
Fly by our car. He's going so far
I go erratic beers, new Red dodge
or reckless driving.
He knew something bad was about to happen.
There was just a car accident.
Horrible horrible accident.
I don't know. They're trying
the black truck is on fire.
There's someone trapped in it
before so that it's like you could
feel it in your bones when you
when you saw that for skilled
beaubier Franks wife Dee and his
two year old granddaughter JoJo.
His daughter is still hospitalized
with a traumatic brain injury.
His son faces months of rehab.
Why was Benjamin Beaubier even on the road?
After three DUI convictions after a
documented history of drug and alcohol
abuse and after that 50 mile chase three
weeks earlier that ended in Park County.
What we've seen in recent years in
the state of Colorado is a a movement
to not have offenders in custody.
I think that this case is a
perfect example of how dangerous
that can be to public safety.
Colorado has a felony DUI law for
a reason. Or somebody
like that, I believe should
have to do some time and really
get himself straightened out if
a DUI investigation would have been
conducted. Perhaps this gentleman would
have been charged with felony DUI.
It makes me I raised to be honest,
because that could have
all been avoided. Everybody
makes mistakes. But when you
keep doing the same thing
over and over again, that's
not really a mistake.
The gentleman may have remained
in custody and not been out
and able to to commit what
ultimately turned into a fatality.
If the driver of the vehicle had
remained in custody in Park County,
would the incident in
Jefferson County have occurred?
Not if he was still in custody
at that time, does that mean
that it wouldn't have happened?
Later I I don't know.
I don't have a crystal ball, not
family that was coming up in that
black truck had no idea than five
seconds their lives were going
to be completely changed forever.
Not enough is being done. What
ifs don't do. Frank Snell any
good. I can't play
that game in my head because
there's no changing it.
No changing wasn't easy.
How this system failed his
surviving granddaughter.
Try to tell a 5 year old that.
Her grams and her little
sister never coming home. Beer
skipped court in the Park
County case. Ironically,
a warrant for his arrest
was issued six days after
the fatal crash. Kevin, they found
alcohol there at that scene. They did.
We're still waiting for toxicology results,
and we don't know what they might
show because the blood wasn't taken
until several hours after the wreck.
Kevin, do you think about the immense
loss you think about 2 year old Joe Joe?
I mean, how did these families?
Even, yeah, Alex.
Frank Snell is basically raising his
surviving granddaughter by himself.
Now a fund has been set up
to help the family.
We've got all those details.
At 9news.com, thank you.