Prosecutors file vehicular homicide charges at Austintown truck stop

AUSTINTOWN — Prosecutors on Wednesday recommended a vehicular homicide charge against the Canadian truck driver who ran over and killed a man earlier this month at the Pilot Travel Center in the township.

Police on Wednesday filed the charge against Guillaume Pelletier, 23, of Quebec, according to an affidavit released today.

Arman Meco, 29, of Michigan, was killed just before 9:30 a.m. May 2 when he walked out into the path of Pelletier’s moving tractor-trailer truck and was pulled under the truck’s wheels.

“Although [Meco] was wearing headphones and never looked to see if there was any traffic prior to crossing the parking lot, [Pelletier] had ample time to either stop or avoid the accident,” an Ohio Department of Public Safety report states. “The in-cab video from [Pelletier’s truck] clearly shows that [he] should have seen [Meco] walking across the parking lot.”

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