Bond for trucker involved in fatal crash reduced to $50K

WARREN — Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court agreed today to reduce bond from $250,000 to $50,000 for truck driver Donald Williams of Austintown, charged with three counts of aggravated vehicular homicide in the traffic deaths last March of three area Marine Corps recruits.

The recruits were killed and three others were injured when their vehicles were hit by Williams’ tractor-trailer cab on state Route 5 in Leavittsburg.

Williams, 44, Bainbridge Avenue, however, is prohibited by Judge Logan’s order to drive a tractor-trailer and is permitted only to drive to work within 100 miles of his home. According to his defense attorney, J. Gerald Ingram, Williams has secured employment with a construction firm.

The truck driver’s previous bond had been set at $250,000, but Ingram told the court in a previous motion that Williams did not pose a risk to the community. As of late today, Williams had not posted the reduced bond.

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