Crime & Safety

Toledo Blade: A Saline Man Will Be Charged In the Crash that Killed Erik Parks

According to the Blade, the indictment indicates alcohol was a factor in the crash that killed Parks last October near Toledo.

The Toledo Blade reported a Saline man will be arraigned May 24 in connection with that killed his passenger, Erik Parks.

The Blade reported that Andrew Roberts, the driver of the vehicle, was indicted Friday with alternate counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, with alcohol playing a factor. In a second count, he is charged with recklessly driving causing death. The Blade reports he faces up to eight years in prison.

The Oct. 14 crash killed 18-year-old , also of Saline. Both were former students in Saline Area Schools. They were on their way home from a trip to New York state.

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According to a media release issued by the Ohio State Highway Patrol last October, Parks was a front-seat passenger in a 1995 Chevrolet pickup that was westbound on Jerusalem Road, just east of milepost 33 near the Bono Curve. The truck went off the north side of the road and struck the end of the guardrail. Parks was pronounced dead at the scene.

Roberts was injured and was transported to St. Vincent Hospital.

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The Bono Curve is a 90-degree turn on what is otherwise a straight highway about 12 miles east of Toledo.


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