Man Surrenders To Police In Crash That Killed Bicyclist
MONTAGUE TWP. (WWJ/AP) - A 26-year-old western Michigan man is facing charges in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 50-year-old Detroit-area bicyclist.
Ronnie Jo Claflin of Muskegon Township surrendered Thursday to police. He had been sought for failing to stop at the scene of an accident causing death.
Susan Cummings, a nurse from Lake Orion, was part of a group of people bicycling across Michigan's Lower Peninsula to raise money for the Hope Water Project. She was struck Aug. 8 by a truck while riding from Montague Township to Bay City.
Witnesses told police a gray or silver pick-up truck hit Cummings, but the accident happened so fast and no one was able to catch the truck's license plate. Investigators say Cummings was killed "in an instant."
Prosecutors have said the truck driver failed to stop although he "knew or had reason to know he'd been at fault in that accident."
If convicted as charged, Claflin faces up to 15 years in prison.
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