<VV> Woman killed in Corvair accident

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>From the South Bend Tribune
Man charged with OWI in fatal Mishawaka crash
Victim and her husband were on way to classic car show

By JEFF PARROTT 
Tribune Staff Writer 

Police have arrested a South Bend man on a charge of operating a vehicle
while intoxicated, causing death, in connection with a fatal crash this
morning on Lincoln Way East.

Shortly after 7 a.m., Derek Dygulski, 34, of the 4200 block of Irish Hills
Drive, was driving his Chevy Cobalt west on Lincoln Way, near Oakside Avenue
and Twin Branch Elementary School, when he veered across the centerline and
struck an eastbound vehicle nearly head-on, said Mishawaka Police Capt. Tim
Spencer.

The impact killed Carol Ragsdale, 60, a passenger in the other vehicle, a
blue 1964 Corvair driven by her husband, Kenneth Ragsdale, 60. The
Ragsdales, of the 1300 block of Providence Court in the Reverewood
subdivision, had been on their way to an antique car show in Dowagiac,
Spencer said.

Spencer said toxicology results, which will reveal Dygulski's blood-alcohol
content at the time of the crash, were not yet available. Spencer said a
drug recognition expert from the metro Fatal Alcohol Crash Team found
probable cause for Dygulski's arrest while questioning him at Saint Joseph
Regional Medical Center, but he declined to elaborate.

Dygulski initially told police he had no recollection of the crash or even
having driven on the street, but later said he recalled driving east on
Lincoln Way, which was incorrect, Spencer said.

Police had no information on what he had been doing before the crash,
Spencer said.

Neither of the Ragsdales had been wearing seat belts because the Corvair did
not have them, Spencer said. Dygulski was wearing a seat belt and his airbag
deployed. He complained of chest pain but was treated and released from the
hospital before being booked into the St. Joseph County Jail, where he was
held without bond pending formal charges.

Mr. Ragsdale's most severe injury was a broken femur.

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Schug
Sent: 17 August 2008 01:52 AM
To: Virtual Vairs
Subject: <VV> Woman killed in Corvair accident

A woman from Mishawaka Indiana was killed in this early-model Corvair.  
Anyone know them?

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Bruce

Bruce W. Schug
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CORSA South Carolina
Greenville, SC
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