During a sworn deposition on March 1, 2017, Shane Romero as witness for the prosecution stated on the record that he never knew the family of the habitual offender, Adam King, prior to the accident. Romero states that as of a week after the accident King’s family was messaging back and forth with him. They added him on Facebook. He even met in person with Alex King. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the case.
After his meetings with King’s family, he dramatically changed his testimony from one truck at the accident to two, and the Dodge Ram 1500 with the camper top changing color from WHITE to RED. That is an extreme change in statement, after admitted tampering by King’s family.
Romero’s deposition:
In Romero’s original sworn statement on 6/30/2016 he stated “it had like…a top on top. Um…white, the top was white.”
Romero was asked and stated “Q: Okay. So pickup truck with uh…with a topper on the back?
A: Yes.”
It was interesting that Romero claimed that he was speeding up when the white Dodge Ram 1500 with the Camper Top was attempting to move into his lane. We have often wondered if the Ram was trying to move from the middle to the right lane when Romero decided to speed up. We have often seen people try to move into another lane before the lane cleared, not giving the person changing lanes anywhere to go. If King was trying to move into the middle lane while the Ram was moving into the right lane, and Romero sped up to block the Ram from moving into the right lane, Romero and King left the Ram nowhere to go. If this is truly the situation, Romero and King caused a collision with the Ram.
However, as discovery proves, King’s accident was a single vehicle accident caused by him “goosing” the bike = rapid acceleration that would cause an inexperienced rider to lose control.