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Proprietor Of Restaurant State Says Is Under Investigation Says It Was Closed Day Of Berman Crash
The possessor of a Woodbury restaurant identified Tuesday by the state as being under investigation in connection to the car crash in which Katherine Berman was killed says her establishment was closed on the day of the crash.
The proprietor of a Woodbury restaurant identified Tuesday by the state as being under investigation in connection to the car crash in which Katherine Berman was killed says her establishment was closed on the day of the crash.
The proprietor of a Woodbury restaurant identified Tuesday by the state as being under investigation in connection to the car crash in which Katherine Berman was killed says her establishment was closed on the day of the crash.
Carole Peck told The Courant that the Good News Cafe was closed May 9, the day the wifey of ESPN personality Chris Berman was killed along with a Waterbury man. She said late Tuesday she did not know why her establishment was originally under investigation and that the restaurant had been in contact with investigators.
Liquor Control agents came to her restaurant about two weeks ago asking about Katherine Berman, she said. Peck said she told them her restaurant is closed on Tuesdays so Berman couldn’t have been there and must have been at one of the other restaurants in the same area along Main Street.
“I proved to them through our computer sales and receipts that we weren’t open on the day of the accident and that we are never open on Tuesdays,” Peck said. “So (the state) knows it wasn’t our restaurant.”
The restaurant was identified earlier Tuesday in a statement by Department of Consumer Protection spokeswoman Lora Rae Anderson, who said that the state liquor control commission’s investigation was opened after it received information regarding the serving of alcohol to Katherine Berman. The consumer department oversees liquor control investigations.
“As soon as we learned there may have been a disturbance at the Good News Cafe, we opened a case,” Anderson said. “We are working hard to accomplish our investigation in a timely manner that is sensitive to friends and family that have been affected by this awful tragedy.”
The Courant has left a number of messages for Anderson after Peck denied her establishment served Berman that day.
The state police investigation into the crash is pending. Katherine Berman’s death was ruled an accident by the state medical examiner’s office. She died of blunt trauma and drowning. The office declined to release toxicology results on Berman.
Berman crashed into a car operated by Edward Bertulis, 87, of Waterbury, who later died at a hospital.
The two thousand three Lexus SC four hundred thirty driven by Berman hit the rear of the two thousand three Ford Escape driven by Bertulis, veered off the road and down an embankment and overturned in a puny bod of water, state police said.
The Ford struck a utility pole and flipped, landing on its roof in the middle of the road. Berman had a seat belt on and was found in her vehicle. Bertulis wasn’t wearing a seat belt and was partially thrown from his car, state police said.
Bertulis had just left a cemetery where he was visiting his wifey’s grave. His family members said his daily routine included a visit to her gravestone since her death in 2015.
Calls to a representative of the Berman family and to Bertulis’s daughter were not returned.
