Deming,NM : Driver indicted in fatal I-10 crash that killed Arizona woman on June, Thursday 8th 2017

The driver suspected of causing a seven-vehicle pileup on Interstate 10 near Las Cruces that killed an Arizona woman four days before Christmas in 2014 has been charged in the woman’s death.

A Doña Ana County grand jury on Thursday indicted the driver, 51-year-old Roman F. Ramirez Ramirez, of Sierra Vista, Arizona, on one count of vehicular homicide in the death of 43-year-old Mary Ortega, of Maricopa, Arizona, who was the only fatality in the Dec. 20, 2014, crash that involved 15 people.

The driver also was indicted on one count of great bodily injury by a vehicle, according to the indictment. Both charges are third-degree felonies.

According to New Mexico State Police, the crash had occurred in a congested construction zone near mile marker 148 on I-10. The initial investigation revealed that a commercial motor vehicle had rear-ended a passenger vehicle — which then ran into the back of a flatbed of a second commercial motor vehicle.

The first commercial motor vehicle then continued to travel eastbound and started to jackknife, police said. It then struck an additional passenger vehicle, causing a chain reaction that resulted in three more passenger vehicles being struck.

"During the course of the investigation," the indictment states, "it was learned that the Defendant (Ramirez Ramirez) was traveling in a construction zone and failed to slow down as other vehicles slowed down, and he collided with the vehicle in front of him, causing a domino effect."


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Driver indicted in fatal I-10 crash that killed Arizona woman