Woman to stand trial in police officer’s death
YORK, Pa. (AP) — A judge has ordered a central Pennsylvania woman to stand trial on charges she fatally struck a police officer with her car and later tried to destroy evidence in the case.
Police say Joanna Seibert, of Dillsburg, was speeding and using her cell phone around the time of the crash in October 2008.
Northern York County Regional Police Officer David Tome was reconstructing an accident scene in Franklin Township when he was hit.
Authorities say Seibert tried to delete her cell-phone data, but phone company records show it was in use at the time of the accident.
Seibert’s attorney, Edward Spreha, acknowledged at a preliminary hearing in York on Thursday that Seibert was distracted. But he says it was an accident, not a crime.