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LISBON -- The driver accused of hitting and killing a pedestrian and then fleeing the scene in East Liverpool on Feb. 4 won't face a jury trial until 9 a.m. Jan. 26 next year.
Tracy C. Quimby, 34, last known address Jackman Street, East Liverpool, also with an address in Hookstown, Pa., appeared Friday for a pretrial hearing before Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton.
She was accompanied by her appointed defense attorney Terry Grenga.
A final status hearing was set for 9:40 a.m. Jan. 11.
Quimby is facing third-degree felony charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and three counts of failure to stop after an accident. Her $100,000 recognizance bond was continued.
The indictment alleged Quimby caused the death of Braidy Ingram, 64, of East Liverpool while operating a 2015 Nissan Rogue Sport and fled the scene without notifying police about the vehicle/pedestrian crash. Family members of the victim were in the courtroom for the hearing.
According to the accident report, Ingram was walking northbound from a home in the 700 block of Bradshaw Avenue into the road before being struck by the eastbound vehicle driven by Quimby, who then continued traveling east, failing to stop after the crash at 7:47 p.m. Feb. 4. Alcohol was not involved, but the report listed unsafe speed as a contributing circumstance, with the speed listed as 40 mph in a posted 25 mph zone. The report also listed improper crossing as a contributing circumstance.
Quimby and her passengers, which included two adults and two children, were uninjured. Ingram was transported by East Liverpool Fire to East Liverpool City Hospital and died.
According to county Chief Assistant Prosecutor Ryan Weikart, the three different counts of failure to stop after an accident represent three different sections of the statute.
Quimby allegedly left the scene, failed to stay when someone was injured and failed to talk to police. The indictment noted for all three of the failure to stop after an accident counts that the accident resulted in the death of a person.
According to Weikart, if convicted, Quimby could face a maximum of 60 months or five years in prison for the aggravated vehicular homicide and a maximum 36 months or three years in prison for each count of failure to stop after an accident, although the three counts would likely merge for sentencing. She could also face a license suspension of at least three years with the possibility of a lifetime suspension.
CANAN CASE
Allison K. Canan, 18, Cuyahoga Falls, also appeared for a pretrial before Bickerton, for two counts of aggravated vehicular assault, a third-degree felony, and two counts of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them-OVI, a misdemeanor, stemming from an accident earlier this year.
A final status hearing was set for 9 a.m. Jan. 8, with a jury trial set for 9 a.m. Feb. 2
According to the indictment, Canan allegedly caused serious physical harm to Lukas R. Richards of Salem and Juliana J. Kesseg of Homeworth as a result of an OVI.
Weikart said the crash occurred on Feb. 2 this year at Georgetown and Knox School roads in Knox Township when the defendant was allegedly driving impaired. Initially, he said it was called in as a one-vehicle rollover, but then the Ohio State Highway Patrol realized the crash involved a second vehicle occupied by Richards and Kesseg.
Canan was represented by Grenga, who was there on behalf of Canan's defense attorney Gerald Ingram. Her bond of $50,000 cash or surety, which she previously posted, was continued.
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