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Wednesday November 28, 2007
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Hulk Hogan's son Nick Bollea was driving around 100 mph during the August 26 crash that seriously injured his passenger, requiring him to likely need lifelong care, police records released Tuesday show.
Barrett Lawrance — a passenger in the silver Dodge Viper that was racing Nick in a Toyota Supra that day — confirmed they were driving at the high speeds and that "this is how [Nick and pals] always drive," according to the 130-page document released by the Clearwater Police Department in Florida.
But Nick's attorney, Morris "Sandy" Weinberg — who said he had not yet seen the documents — insisted his client was not driving 100 mph.
"The scientific evidence doesn't support anything like that," he was quoted as saying in the St. Petersburg Times.
According to the report, Nick — who has been charged with reckless driving with serious bodily injury and who had a breath-alcohol level of .02 or higher at the time of the crash — told police he was traveling 30 or 40 mph and did not know what road he was traveling on or what direction.
An investigator said Nick's speech was "mumbled and soft" and his eyes bloodshot.
Before the accident, Nick and his friends spent the day on a boat with Hogan.
According to the document, Hogan — who real name is Terry Bollea — bought $78 in beer and ice at Albertson's Liquor Store at 2:14 p.m.
Nick's friends, all of whom were at least 21, drank beer from bottles, the report said, but it is unknown what Nick drank; he held a plastic cup that afternoon.
“The report speaks for itself,” a rep for the Clearwater Police Department tells Usmagazine.com.
A rep for Hogan had no comment.
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Posted by Lindsay Powers at 9:09 pm ET
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Why cant you all leav Nick alone hes doing his time what more do you all whont from him. How many of you all have kinds I would say a lot of you all do I have a five year old and yes I do take up for her just like you all woul do for your own Hogan has every right to take up for his son .Thear are more then this acident happing in this world then what he has done . How would you all like it if it was one off yours that had done something like this are you goning to put your own down or are you going to up hold them I mean tell the truth about it and dont lie .so what if they have money hoagn is just puting his family first so get over it and leave them alone.
nik dont worry about any of this.
your mother your father your sister and yourself have allways and will allways be heros in my books.
now you know how easy it is to get in to trouble and now it should be very easy for you to keep yourself out of it.
i wish the best to you and all the rest of the hogan members.
i hope your mom and dad can work things out and stay together.
have a nice day
laters
both boys knew what they were doing and both boys get what they got.
thats that and thats it.
you can talk smack if you want to all day long about all kinds of crap that isnt fare.just be happy both arent dead and move on with your lifes.
thank you
have a nice day
He should be severly punished. As you notice he is a repeat offender and now look what has happened. He should get prison time for at least 10 years or more. Take away a good portion of his life. He is responsible of all who get in his vehicle. He should of told the passenger he can't drive unless he puts his seatbelt on. He was racing and now his passenger is ruined for life.
A similar incident just happened to my son. They were all coming back from the beach and the kid was high in ectasy another passager asked for the keys to drive and he refused to give up the keys. They almost made it home but the kid who had no insurance just got his drivers license made a illegal turn onto oncoming traffic and my son was in the front seat and they got T-Boned. MY son suffered a suvere brain injury, broken pelvis and lost a kidney. The doctors said he will be a vegetable.
Thank god after serveral painful operations, days and still working on recovering he is proving them wrong. But he is not or will never be the same and may have to live in a nursing home for the rest of his life at the age of twenty.
Nick should be punished, but awful mistakes do happen. By how close the two were friends, it is safe to assume the passenger knew exactly how Nick drives and if you truly feel threatened in a car (about to race or racing at high speeds), it is your responsibility to let the driver know otherwise your just trusting your own life in someone's hands. But the one thing that pisses me off about all your comments is the 'drunk' comments. Blowing barely over .02 isn't anything. Makes me wonder if anyone has drank before and breathalyzed? Even the legal limit of .08, you are just barely tipsy and very, well aware of your actions and surroundings. Aka, the kid wasn't drunk. Being stupid? Of course.
WE love nick! and may the lord be with him at this time..
you all can go eat some puddinnnnn!! and choke on it and die loves yea
Terrible thing, no doubt, but could this not have happen to alot of us? I hope the passenger some how comes out of the coma. Nick, you have got a heavy burden the rest of your life, slow down.
Yeah, forgetting to wear a seatbelt is a horrible crime. It should be punishable by death. I hope all of you people who are saying that this guy is to blame for his injuries because he didn't wear a seatbelt get hit by a car while you're jaywalking. Because jaywalking a horrible crime too.
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It's obvious that these guys and the Bollea family are people who recklessly drive to get their kicks. Nick's been ticketed before, including for doing 82 in a 45 down a stretch of a very torn up highway under construction with workers present and while not wearing a seat belt. That was 16 days before the accident. He also had tickets in Feb., April and the previous Sept. In all cases he was going over the limit by at least 27 mph, twice over 100. From the comments made by the friends, they all drove like this frequently, but one does not excuse another. I hope that Nick receives a long probation - jail time will NOT happen - and some serious community service. He's already lost his license and hopefully at the end of things it will be a lengthy loss.
His parents should be held liable in civil court. Parents should be responsible for their kids. I know some who really do all they can do and the kids still act out, but that's not the case here as Nick was still driving a car that had been modified to race. They seem to have been willing to pay the piper thus far, but Granziano will need lifelong care. As parents who encouraged their son's behavior they should be responsible for damages. I imagine in the end there will be an out of court settlement. I don't think the age difference is all that confusing. Nick is a kid with everything handed to him. His father is a celebrity to some people and seemingly a nice guy. It would not be unusual for someone who is still young to be somewhat starstruck. I could imagine there was also a bit of the mentality of looking out for the younger kid, never mind that the one looking out is probably not that mature himself. I'm not sure what he saw in Iraq, but perhaps a sense of invincibility as well after surviving over there. Or a sense of I deserve to let my hair down a bit. Who knows? Hardly a big mystery though.
It's the responsibility of anyone over 18 and in the front of the car to wear a seat belt in FL. So Granziano should have had one on, but wearing a belt wouldn't have prevented the crash. Talk is that wearing one wouldn't have even prevented his serious injuries.
The passenger is at the will of the driver. Passengers aren't ticketed in accidents in any case I know of. In FL the knowing passenger in a drag race can be ticketed and fined. But we'll not know if he knew or if he egged him on even if common sense says he did. It was Nick who chose to race on a wet, heavily travelled road. Any driver who can't say no to their passenger should not be driving. I don't think they were going 100 at the time of the accident, maybe at some point as they'd been racing around the city for several miles, but they were speeding. He sure as hell wasn't going 30. No one goes 30 at that point on that road (the limit is 40), let alone a kid who regularly speeds.
Nick's alcohol level was not enough to make him legally drunk. It's an issue because of his age and zero tolerance laws. Granziano getting into the car with Nick doesn't mean he got in a car with a drunk driver. The red eyes comment from the police officer, well, the kid had just been in an accident where he was stuck in a car with his severely injured friend. No duh his eyes were red.
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i can't stand the hogan's!!! they're fake, self-absorbed, and all UGLY!!
yeah, he was going 30/40 mph....bs!!! just like his mom wasn't racing and then saying some ridiculous comment about the cops...then when asked about it, flat out lying and saying it never happened...it was caught on camera!!!!
I am just having a hard time grasping how a 22-year-old military man has less common sense than a 17-year-old. There is a huge age difference between the 2 in maturity years and yet no one seems to grasp that. I personally think it is both their faults. Nick should pay his medical for the rest of his life and be criminally punished for his actions but the other guys parents need to understand that their ADULT son showed extreme lack of maturity in even letting someone underage of 18 get drunk around him and then drive. The passenger committed a crime here too... and if he wasn't so injured 10-1 odds he would be getting some for of criminal charge against him and might just have gotten some sort of military punishment as well.
Drinking and speeding. Let's blame THAT on a seatbelt. May the little scum rot in jail.
You guys are right...Nick's friend "willingly" got behind the wheel knowing Nick had been drinking....HOWEVER, in doing so, he put his life in the hands of his "friend" who acted carelessly and with complete disregard of all laws, his friend, his self AND the other drivers on the streets that night. Nick should be held accountable and I hope the little bastard pays dearly for it. He's a punk little pr--k and his parents should be ashamed.
2:29: I also agree! This guy got willingly in the car with a 17-year-old who HAD been drinking (he knew too cause he had been drinking too) and chose not to wear his seatbelt.
I am suffering from side effects from a wreck I had a 15 which were mainly inflicted from no seat belt... so my sympathy now at the age I am and all the statistics and laws that are in place and PROVEN is very low for people who willing put their lives in danger.
Now as for Nick that boy needs to be punished for the lack of respect and responsibily towards the machine he was driving and the OTHER drivers on the road that he put in danger.
But as for the passenger in so many ways he signed his own fate... since when do 22-year-olds let 17-year-old rule over them?
Regardless of who is wrong or right, the passenger guy, a young man, will never have a normal life, and because of one single mistake he will pay the price for the rest of his life. And Nick, whatever happens here, will be able to walk, jump, get married and get drunk again. So, is he going to learn his lesson right the way? Maybe not, if we society excuse him for this huge irresponsible act, maybe he will do it again. He needs to pay for this mistake, even though the other guy was not wearing his seatbelt. Nick needs to be responsible for his deeds, it is a big mistake to let him to get away with this, I am telling you, as a young spoiled teenager, he will do it again, I have seen it before
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i agree...everyone should be held accountable, i'm sure while they were racing he wasn't telling nick to slow down...he couldn't forsee what was about to happen...i do, however, feel that nick should be held more liable because HE was at the wheel and him/his family should have to compensate for the current and future medical needs of this guy...
just goes to show that when you think you're above everyone and everything, you're irresponsible and selfish actions will always catch up to you...and unfortunately, something tragic has to happen to keep your pompous ego in check...
Sadly, in Florida it is required by law that you wear your seatbelt. Hell, we even have 'click it or ticket' weeks where they literally go out and look for anyone not wearing one to ticket them. Fact is, it saves lives. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that refuse to wear them because it is 'uncomfortable' or pure laziness. They dont realize how serious of an issue it is until they end up in the hospital or worse, dead. Then they get to live wondering the rest of their lives if things wouldve turned out differently if they had worn it. If you want to make it home everyday or simply value your life--buckle up. It's simple.
I am *in no way* saying he deserved what happened; it is a horrible fate. However, you cant always pin the blame on someone else for your lack of using common sense; self responsibility--as an adult or soon to legally be one. He knew Nick was drunk and couldve at any point called for a cab instead of getting in that car especially knowing from day to day experience that he likes to drive fast. Clearly, alcohol would inhibit his driving abilities. They are both at fault here in my opinion. It's easy to just blame the driver but all in all its a culmination of poor decisions that got them *both* in that car. I simply dont understand why when people go out drinking they dont just call a cab?! You would rather take a risk of hitting someone on the way home, possibly killing them, and have no recollection of doing it?! Hell, most bars/restaurants, if you are inebriated, will pay for a cab for you if you cant afford it because they can be sued for letting you leave drunk if you get into a crash.
You want to institute the death penalty for failing to wear a seatbelt? (This guy is not technically dead, but it's close.) Some hard hearted people you are. You better be pluperfect in your behavior. Good God.
1:45, I agree. People who chose to climb in a car with a drunk and then don't even use their seatbelt aren't too intelligent to begin with.
Not condoning the actions of this teenager, but some accountability lies with the adult passenger who was, no doubt, intoxicated and made a decision to drive in a car with a kid who drives fast and decided "not" to wear his seat belt. What's that about? What if he were driving, probably would have been the same outcome... Stop racing, but everyone knows that teenagers think they are invincible.
Someone was seriously injured, he was speeding and drinking something underage - he needs to be held accountable regardless of who his daddy is...
I agree, he is very spoiled, and the Hogan's are billed as strict parents and I believe he was speeding. There are theories going around that the Hogan's are divorcing to divide assets, because there is going to be a lawsuit clearly, and this would not surprise me if the root of the divorce is related to this, although they have been having problems.
F*CK NICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE'S A SPOILED PUNK JERK!!
Hulk is always billed as this super-strict Dad. But in reality, those kids get to do whatever they want. They used to show Nick driving around with his friends before he was 16. And if he was so worried about Brooke getting raped, why did he let her wear barely-there clothes? Shame on you Nick AND Hulk!!
Of course he was drinking. Perhaps charges need to be brought up against Hulk now for contributing alcohol to a minor. There is no way he was going 30 mph. A 30 mph wreck does not total a car like that when it hits a pole or tree. I believe his friend that said he was going about 100 mph. Even on the show Hogan Knows Best they show him speeding. Apparently Nick believes people were born yesterday. Instead of keeping a tight hold on Brooke, Hulk should have kept one on Nick.
Nick deserves to go to jail just like anyone else would for racing, put on probation and defiantly lose his license. Spoiled hollywood little fu*ks
