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Witnesses In Jeff Knight’s Prior Crash Testify Ahead Of Clearwater Ferry Trial

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Status

Reported, not yet confirmed

Independent sources

3

First seen

Oct 9, 5:07 PM EDT

updated Oct 10, 6:47 AM EDT

Topic

Local News

Reported by Tampa Bay Times, WFLA (NBC 8) and WTSP, not yet confirmed.

What Happened

Ahead of the Clearwater Ferry trial, a judge weighed whether Jeff Knight's 2019 boat crash can be used as evidence, with witnesses to the prior incident testifying during a hearing that also scrutinized dismissed citations, WFLA, the Tampa Bay Times and WTSP reported.

Written by our system from the sources below (3), version 1, Oct 10, 7:43 AM EDT. Official warnings are never rewritten: they are quoted as issued.

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How It Unfolded

Oct 9, 5:37 PM EDT · first source seen

Official Confirmation

No official source confirms this yet. It is reported, not confirmed.

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How We Decided

Oct 10, 12:14 AM EDTPublished: Two or more independent sources reported it.NextConfirmed when an official source agrees.