Authorities have arrested the truck driver involved in this week’s fatal crash on St. Joe Avenue. WNIN’s John Gibson has the update:
Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 24-year-old Malik Stafford of Louisville on a charge of Operating a Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated Causing Death -- a Level 4 Felony.
Stafford also faces a misdemeanor charge.
The sheriff’s office says tests confirmed the presence of cannibas in Stafford’s bloodstream.
Investigators say he lost control of the box truck he was driving on St. Joe Avenue, north of Wimberg Road, and crashed into an SUV driven by 31-year-old Maria Guetling of Evansville.
Guetling died at the scene.
A child in her vehicle was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Sheriff Noah Robinson called the crash a “heartbreaking and entirely preventable tragedy.”
He said “our hearts go out to the victim’s family, her husband, and her two children who will now grow up without their mother.”
A GoFundMe account has been established to raise money for the Guetling family.