Fatal Cape Coral pool hall crash leaves many in mourning - The News-Press
Ronald Gravel always beat his brother in billiards. Gravel, 60, died Monday afternoon from his injuries after a drunken driver smashed a Ford F-250 through the front windows of the pool hall and pinned him against the bar. It’s just not fair,” said Dave Gravel, on the phone from his hometown of Peabody, Massachusetts. “He was coming into the best part of his life,” Dave Gravel said of his brother. Gravel is the 62nd person to die in a Lee County traffic accident in 2015. Besides killing Gravel, the crash seriously injured Tracy Booker, 52, of Cape Coral, and left Linda Girard, 58, of Cape Coral, with minor injuries, according to the Cape... Gravel and one of the women were pinned against the bar. Orange paint stripes on the parking lot mark the pickup’s rough route: The pickup was parked at an angle pointing at the spot on the wall it would eventually hit, then it had to power over a nearly foot-high curb, maneuver across the width of a... There are no updates on the conditions of Booker and Girard, both of whom were seated at the bar directly in the path of the truck, said Detective Sgt. He said it appears Gulliver was drinking in the bar before leaving and waited several minutes in the pickup before he drove into the pool hall. Source: www.news-press.com
