SEQUIM — Prosecutors in King County could decide in the next two weeks whether to bring vehicular homicide charges against Ray Chipman, the driver in a July 19 single-vehicle crash that killed 13-year-old Sequim Middle School student KayDee Campbell.
State Patrol detectives investigating the crash have recommended charges of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in the case, said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Chipman, 45, was driving a 1995 Oldsmobile on state Highway 169 near Maple Valley when he fell asleep at the wheel and struck a utility pole, a State Patrol report said.
KayDee Campbell and her mother, Ronda Campbell, 41, were passengers in the car.
KayDee was riding in the back seat and struck her head on either the window or the car’s ceiling. She was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle where she remained unconscious until she was removed from life support equipment and pronounced dead on July 22.
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The rest of the story appears in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News.