LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Niagara County District Attorney's Office announced that an indictment was unsealed in Niagara County Court Wednesday charging Eric Gardner with the following crimes:
- Aggravated vehicular homicide
- First-degree vehicular manslaughter
- Second-degree vehicular manslaughter
- Driving while intoxicated
- Driving while ability impaired by the combined influence of alcohol and drugs
The charges are in connection to a fatal crash that occurred on Ridge Road in Hartland in August.
Gardner is accused of being behind the wheel of a vehicle that left the road, struck a tree, and overturned several times. The district attorney's office said a passenger in the vehicle, 47-year-old Stacey Donnelly of Lockport, was killed. Gardner was arraigned and bail was set at $400,000 cash, $800,000 bond.
