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The evidence will show that Jenner, 65, was driving at an
unsafe speed on Feb. 7 before her Cadillac Escalade, which was
towing a trailer carrying an off-road vehicle, slammed into two
other cars on Pacific Coast Highway, a sheriff's detective told
the paper.
A Sheriff's spokesman confirmed to Reuters that the department's
investigators had concluded their investigation and would submit
the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney next week,
but declined to say if those detectives would recommend a
manslaughter charge.
The department said in a written statement that "concluded in
the results of the investigation is that speed was a factor,
considering the existing traffic conditions."
"The District Attorney's Office will determine what, if any,
charges will be filed in this case, or if there will be a
request for further investigation," the sheriff's department
said.
During the crash, a white Lexus being driven by 69-year-old Kim
Howe was shoved by Jenner's sport-utility vehicle across a
center divider and into oncoming traffic, where it was struck
head-on by a Hummer.
Howe was killed in the collision and Jessica Steindorff, who was
driving a black Toyota Prius also rear-ended by Jenner, was
injured. Jenner escaped serious injury in the crash and declined
medical treatment, authorities said.
Both Steindorff and Howe's stepchildren family sued Jenner, who
was known as Bruce Jenner at the time of the crash and rose to
fame with a record-breaking Olympic gold medal victory in the
decathlon in the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal.
Bruce Jenner was known to younger generations as the patriarch
of reality TV's Kardashian clan before announcing in a
nationally televised interview in April that he was transgender.
Caitlyn Jenner is now the star of her own reality TV show, "I Am
Cait," centered on her transition.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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