AMISH MAN TO BE CHARGED IN FATAL ACCIDENT
Friday, October 9th, 2009 -- 11:52 AM
A 19-year-old Amish man will be charged Monday with Hit and Run resulting in death for his role in an accident last month.Assistant District Attorney Dick Lewis plans to file the charge against 19-year-old Rudy Gingerich of the Greenwood area. According to past reports, Gingerich borrowed a neighbor's vehicle for a joyride. He crashed it in a ditch on Sterling Avenue, between Greenwood and Mead Lake.
His passenger, 21-year-old Tobias Hershberger, was thrown from the vehicle and killed.
Gingerich suffered a head injury.
Gingerich wasn?t at the scene when authorities arrived. He returned two hours later and explained what happened.
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