Katie Stanley, 18, of Dansville was a passenger in a car returning home from a concert at Darien Lake Theme Park last August when she was killed in a crash.
An Alexander man has become the first person in Genesee County to be charged with aggravated vehicular homicide after a grand jury filed a 12-count indictment against him for a crash that killed a Dansville woman in August.
Ronald J. Wendt II was hit with nine felony charges related to the Aug. 14 crash in Darien that killed college student Katie M. Stanley and injured three others. The aggravated vehicular homicide charge is the most severe count, carrying a maximum 25-year prison term if convicted.
The four were returning home from a concert at Darien Lake Theme Park at the time of the crash.
The indictment, filed Tuesday in County Court, also charges Wendt with second-degree vehicular manslaughter, second-degree manslaughter, two counts of second-degree vehicular assault, two counts of aggravated vehicular assault, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of DWI and one count third-degree assault.
Aggravated homicide and assault charges were added to New York’s penal law in 2007 and were aimed at offenders who engage in reckless driving that results in serious injury or death.