Oklahoma City Police released their report Monday of the crash that killed Chesapeake Energy co-founder Aubrey McClendon earlier this month.
The Chevy Tahoe’s data recorder was intact. Chief Bill Citty said it shows McClendon was driving 88 miles per hour five seconds before the crash and touched his brakes several times before impact.
"If you touch your brakes, your tail lights are going to go on, but it does not show where there was actual, hard compression of the brake where it actually would have caused the vehicle to slow," Citty said.
A preliminary report from the medical examiner says McClendon didn't have any medical episode on March 2 that may have caused him to tap his brakes.
McClendon’s SUV hit part of a concrete bridge at 78 miles per hour. Police won’t speculate at this point whether McClendon committed suicide, but investigators are looking at that possibility.
"Trying to put the pieces together from maybe the night before until the time this happened to find out if there would have been any reason that he may have decided to take his own life," Citty said. "All that information will be handed over to the medical examiner's office, and the medical examiner will make that final determination."
McClendon’s fatal, single-vehicle crash in Oklahoma City happened the day after he was indicted on charges of rigging bids for oil and gas leases.
