CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) - A driver has pleaded not guilty to charges in the traffic death last year of a 9-year-old boy in northern Iowa’s Floyd County.
Jesse Blade, 30, of Charles City, entered a written plea last week to vehicular homicide while intoxicated, vehicular homicide while driving recklessly, second-offense operating while intoxicated and three counts of serious injury by vehicle, the Sioux City Journal reported.
The crash happened in Rudd on Oct. 26. The Iowa State Patrol has said Blade didn’t stop at a stop sign and rammed into the passenger side of a minivan, killing 9-year-old Royce Fisher of Sioux City.
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