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Aug 7, 2007 1:47 pm US/Eastern
Driver Charged In Deadly I-93 Ramp Plunge
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The car was travelling on the I-93 north off-ramp heading towards the Tobin Bridge when it went over a concrete barrier and through a fence.
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The car fell 70 feet and landed in the Boston Sand and Gravel complex.
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The damaged fence and barrier after the crash in March.
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Albert Auprey, 20, is charged with motor vehicle homicide.
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A New Hampshire man who was driving a car that plunged 70 feet off a highway ramp in Charlestown last March pleaded not guilty Tuesday to motor vehicle homicide.
Albert Auprey, 20, was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court in the death of his friend, 20-year-old John Andersen.
Prosecutors say Auprey and Anderson had been drinking into the early morning hours of Sunday March 18 and left an apartment on Grove Street in Boston to drive home to Manchester, New Hampshire.
A short time later Auprey lost control of his Toyota Camry and it plunged off the Interstate 93 exit ramp near the Zakim Bridge and landed in the Boston Sand and Gravel property below.
The car sat there for two-and-a-half hours before Auprey called 911. Anderson was dead in the passenger seat.
It took State Police a half-hour to find the car.
Prosecutors say Auprey admitted to having about 8 drinks the night before.
He allegedly told the 911 operator "I drove my car home I guess, I can't remember I was so drunk last night."
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