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Trial delayed for driver in Frazier Avenue crash that killed Florida mother, child

Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / On Sept. 29, 2025, Randy Vega enters the courtroom at the Court Building in Chattanooga. Vega's trial has been delayed.
Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / On Sept. 29, 2025, Randy Vega enters the courtroom at the Court Building in Chattanooga. Vega's trial has been delayed. Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / On Sept. 29, 2025, Randy Vega enters the courtroom at the Court Building in Chattanooga. Vega's trial has been delayed.


The trial for the man accused of killing a Florida mother, her toddler and critically injuring their husband/father in a Frazier Avenue car crash will be postponed, according to court officials.

Randy Vega, 45, appeared Sept. 29 in Hamilton County Criminal Court, where his attorneys requested an expert witness to analyze the car crash that occurred over Thanksgiving weekend 2023 at the corner of Frazier and Forest avenues.

At the time, Judge Boyd Patterson said Vega’s trial could be delayed because of a funding issue with the expert witness.

A court record entry filed Oct. 2 said the Nov. 10 trial date was canceled and converted to a “settlement date,” which Mike Little, Vega’s public defender, said serves as the next status hearing when a new trial date will be selected.