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Falls City Man Enters Plea in Vehicular Homicide Case

By John Nixon

01/10/2013

(KLZA) A Falls City man has pleaded no contest to an amended charge of vehicular homicide in connection with an accident in 2011 that claimed the life of an Ohio man.

36 year old Steve Darveau Jr. entered the plea Tuesday in Richardson County District Court to the misdemeanor charge.

He had been charged with a felony count of manslaughter.

Sentencing was scheduled for March 5th.

Darveau is charged with the unintentional death of 64-year-old Edward Packard of Cleves, Ohio on August 5th, 2011.

Authorities say Darveau was traveling south on Highway 73 about two miles south of Falls City when he attempted to make a left hand turn onto 703 Loop in front of a northbound motorcycle driven by Packard and the vehicles collided. Packard was pronounced dead at the scene.

Packards wife has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging Darveau and the Falls City Area Jaycees are to blame for her husband’s death.

Darveau was going to attend the Jaycees demolition derby near the site of the crash when the accident occurred.

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