New Crash Details: Casey Aldridge "Fortunate That It Wasn't Worse"

Casey Aldridge's passengers identified, accident details in newly released crash report

By Natalie Finn, Whitney English Apr 30, 2009 12:10 AMTags
Jamie Lynn Spears, Casey AldridgeTodd Williamson/WireImage.com

Casey Aldridge did not appear to have been drinking before he rolled his pickup truck on a rural Louisiana road early Sunday morning. But authorities can't say whether his buddies were.

Dustin Havard, 23, and Cody Jenkins, 21, neither of whom were wearing seatbelts, have been identified as the guys who were thrown out of the truck along with Aldridge when his Ford F-250 flipped over.

According to the crash report released today, Aldridge drove about 250 feet in a ditch alongside the road before he "overcorrected and lost control of the truck," which rolled over at least once and went another 160 feet before coming to a stop.

The reason why Jamie Lynn Spears' fiancé was going off-road in the first place remains unknown, Louisana State Police spokesman Mark Dennis told E! News Wednesday. There were no witnesses to the crash.

"These guys were very fortunate that it wasn't worse than it was," he said.

The other two passengers in the truck have been identified as Charles Knapp, 22, and Eric Estes, 19.

Dennis said it is still unknown where the group was coming from at 1:20 a.m.

Some reports have pegged the guys as returning home from a fishing trip, while others have said that they were coming back from a bachelor party.

Cody Jenkins' sister, Carly, told E! News that neither she nor her brother had any comment on the matter.

When asked what sort of punishment Aldridge was facing for a charge of careless operation of a motor vehicle, Dennis said it would most likely be nothing more than a monetary fine.

Aldridge was transferred out of the intensive care unit at University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he was being treated for a head injury, on Tuesday. He was the only one who required hospitalization after the accident.