U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday told graduates of the northern Indiana Catholic boarding school he graduated from 40 years ago that persistence is the most essential quality to success and is the only trait each personLAFAYETTE, Ind. – North-central Indiana prosecutors have decided not to charge a farmer whose failure to stop a combine at an intersection caused an accident that killed three people.
Tippecanoe County Prosecutor Pat Harrington told the Journal & Courier (http://indy.st/UnARNG) that under prior Indiana Court of Appeals rulings, negligence in a wreck doesn’t amount to a criminal offense. He said 36-year-old Carl McFarland of West Point therefore won’t be charged in the Oct. 31 crash.
That crash near Lafayette killed 62-year-old Daniel Fox of Attica, his 40-year-old wife, Stacy Fox, and their 15-year-old daughter, Demara Fox, when their minivan drove under a spiked harvesting apparatus known as a cornhead attached to McFarland’s combine.
A Fox family spokesman said they’re glad McFarland won’t face charges because the fatalities were “just a horrible accident.”
