By Associated Press - Friday, January 8, 2021

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas man has been charged with second-degree murder in the traffic crash death last year of a 17-year-old girl.

Prosecutors on Thursday charged Eric Hoedl, 42, of Olathe, in the Aug. 2 death of 17-year-old Jade Burkhart, television station KSHB reported. Police have said Hoedl was driving a pickup truck that collided with the teen’s car at the intersection of South Hedge Lane and West Larkspur Street in Olathe.

Burkhart was about to enter her senior year of high school at the time of the crash, officials said. No other details of the crash have been released.



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