Dayton woman sentenced to prison after hit-skip crash that killed pedestrian in Wilmington
A Dayton woman accused of striking and killing a pedestrian in Wilmington, then leaving the scene, last summer was sentenced to 57 months in prison this week in Clinton County Common Pleas Court.
As announced by the Wilmington Police Department last September, Taylor Thompson, 26, of Dayton was identified as the suspected driver who allegedly struck and killed a pedestrian on Aug. 19, 2023 in Wilmington.
“On Aug. 19 at 2:15 a.m., Wilmington Police Department responded to a 911 call of a hit-skip crash with a pedestrian struck at the intersection of South South Street and Sugartree Street,” the Wilmington Police Department wrote. “The pedestrian, a 27-year-old male from Wilmington, was transported to Clinton Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased by medical staff.”
According to court records, Thompson was indicted by a Clinton County grand jury in October 2023 on charges of involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony; two counts of failure to stop after an accident, a second-degree felony and third-degree felony; aggravated vehicular homicide, a second-degree felony; tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; reckless homicide, a third-degree felony; involuntary manslaughter, a third-degree felony; operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol, a first-degree misdemeanor; and assault, a first-degree misdemeanor.
Thompson pleaded guilty in April to three third-degree felonies: failure to stop after an accident, tampering with evidence and reckless homicide. The other six charges were dismissed.
According to court records, Clinton County Common Pleas Court Judge John W. Rudduck sentenced Thompson June 10 to the aforementioned 57-month prison term, writing in his judgment entry that “the harm caused by two or more of the multiple offenses was s great or unusual that no single person term for any of the offenses committed adequately reflects the seriousness of the offender’s conduct.”
Rudduck sentenced Thompson to serve 30 months on the reckless homicide charge, consecutive to 18 months for the failure to stop charge and nine months on the tampering with evidence charge. She had jail time credit of 228 days.
Once Thompson is released from prison, her driver’s license is to be suspended for three years, according to court records.
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