Jul. 1—A 21-year-old man is accused of hitting another vehicle, killing its driver, with his pickup in Northwest Albuquerque. Jesus Sandoval-Martinez, of Albuquerque is charged with vehicular homicide, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident (great bodily harm or death), open container and failure to obey a traffic sign. Martinez is being held at […]
A Woodstock man has been found guilty of his role in a November 2020 fatal car accident that led to the death of a man, the Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office announced. Patrick Emerson Thomas, 69, was found guilty of homicide by vehicle in the first degree (reckless driving), homicide by vehicle in the first […]
One person is dead after a Kennewick woman hit three motorcycles in Yakima County. Beth A. Striver, 24, is being held in the Yakima County Jail on suspicion of vehicular assault and vehicular homicide. She was driving northbound on State Route 821 north of Yakima in a 2010 Ford Escape around 11 a.m. on Friday, […]
May 29—CALEDONIA, Minn. — A 49-year-old Wisconsin woman, who admitted to drinking nine beers before driving , has been sentenced for her role in a July 2023 crash that injured another driver. Heather Marie Horsfall, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced Tuesday, May 28, on a gross misdemeanor count of criminal vehicular operation under the […]
A Bellingham man will spend more than six years in prison for driving off the road and hitting and killing a pedestrian in the Puget neighborhood of Bellingham in September 2022. Jacob Matthew Saville, 38, was sentenced May 7 in Whatcom County Superior Court to 6.5 years in prison, with 1.5 years of probation for […]
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Jh’Isisah Franklin, 19, asked to be tried as a youthful offender for allegedly speeding and crashing into a tree, killing one of the passengers in his car. Franklin appeared in court this morning for an arraignment hearing. His attorney asked for him to be tried as a youthful offender. Mobile Mayor […]
POUGHKEEPSIE – A Dutchess County woman was sentenced Thursday to two and one-third to seven years in state prison after she was convicted of vehicular manslaughter earlier this year in a 2022 head-on collision that killed a man. The Dutchess County District Attorney’s office said County Court Judge Jessica Segal pronounced the sentence for Camay […]
Mar. 9—A young man is facing a vehicular homicide charge after police say he ran a red light and crashed into another vehicle, killing the driver, Saturday morning on Albuquerque’s West Side. Franchesca Perdue, an Albuquerque police spokeswoman, said 20-year-old Isaiah Sena is also charged with reckless driving. She said he is in the hospital […]
Mar. 8—After nearly three years and two trials, a judge delivered the high-end sentence to a 30-year-old woman who killed her 39-year-old passenger in a drunken driving crash. Spokane County Superior Court Judge Rachelle Anderson sentenced Selina Juarez on Friday to 8 1/2 years in prison — the high end of the standard sentence range […]
Feb. 28—OLYMPIA — An initiative that would give Washington police more authority to chase suspects in vehicles sparked a lively debate Wednesday at a public hearing at the Capitol. Last year, more than 400,000 Washingtonians signed a ballot measure that would overturn the state law preventing an officer from embarking on a car chase unless […]
A 41-year-old Alexandria woman has been arrested months after a fatal crash on Browns Bend Road, accused of vehicular homicide, drag racing and other charges. A 41-year-old Alexandria woman has been arrested months after a fatal crash on Browns Bend Road, accused of vehicular homicide, drag racing and other charges. The Alexandria Police Department announced […]
A 36-year-old LeClaire woman was in custody Sunday after police allege she struck and killed a pedestrian in a parking lot late Saturday, court records show. Molly Ann Vance faces a felony charge of homicide by vehicle and a serious misdemeanor charge of OWI – first, court records say. Molly Ann Vance (Scott County Jail) […]