MOHAVE COUNTY – A traffic fatality in north Mohave County has resulted in a plea agreement for a truck driver from Houston, Texas. Jillian Ray, 36, pleaded guilty on November 21 to a charge of failing to remain at the scene of an accident involving injury or death.
Deputy Mohave County Attorney James Gilmore said the deadly collision occurred on March 22 on U.S. 93 about 28 miles south of Hoover Dam.
The prosecutor said Ray pulled onto the highway from a truck stop in an 18-wheeler that was hauling cement blocks on a flatbed trailer before the ensuing crash. Gilmore said Ray drove from the scene of the accident for a few miles until she was located and apprehended by responding law enforcement officers.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves identified the Camp Verde, Arizona man fatally injured in the second vehicle as Terrence Wathogoma (age not provided).
Ray is eligible for supervised probation, but could also be sent to prison for up to eight years. A sentencing hearing before Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen is scheduled January 16.
