His attorney said Hughes was already out of state when the indictment was handed down and was on vacation in New Jersey, according to the OSHP.
Hughes was indicted July 24 of eight counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and one count each of aggravated vehicular assault, vehicular assault, failure to stop after an accident and OVI, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office.
He is accused of causing an April 1 crash that killed four employees with Enterprise Mobility: Stephen Cassel, 72, of Clayton; Richard Coatney, 77, of Piqua; Larry Edwards, 77, of Tipp City, and Richard Turnbull, 66, of Lewisburg. A fifth person was seriously injured and taken to Miami Valley Hospital.
Hughes suffered injuries that were not life-threatening and was taken to Kettering Health Dayton.
Multiple police departments received calls April 1 about a reckless driver on Interstate 70 near the exit to the Dayton International Airport. Around 2:10 p.m., Hughes, who was driving a Volvo SUV, reportedly rear-ended a Nissan Frontier pickup truck and fled onto the exit, the highway patrol said. The driver of the pickup followed Hughes and provided information to dispatchers.
Hughes continued to flee, reaching near 90 mph in an area with a speed limit of 40 mph, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office, before he reportedly T-boned a minivan at the intersection of Terminal and Boeing drives, just four minutes after the initial crash.
The minivan was filled with men who worked at the nearby Enterprise Mobility business at the airport.
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