Lakewood Man Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter, DWI In Death Of 7-Year-Old

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POMFRET – New York State Police have charged a Lakewood man in connection with a crash that killed a 7-year-old girl in Chautauqua County.

Troopers say 24-year-old Nicholas Mineweaser was arrested Thursday night and charged with vehicular manslaughter and DWI-drugs.











This past February, seven-year-old Emmaline Wilcox was killed in the crash on Route 60 in the Town of Pomfret.

Image by New York State Police.

Officials say the vehicle Wilcox was in was waiting to turn left into a parking lot when the vehicle was rear-ended and pushed into traffic, leading it to be hit by a southbound tractor-trailer.

The 35-year-old driver of the vehicle Wilcox was in survived, but the girl was pronounced dead at Brooks Memorial Hospital.









She was a student of Sinclairville Elementary School.

 

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