IONIA, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A 42-year-old woman will stand trial in the death of two bicyclists.
Mandy Benn will stand trial on two counts of second degree murder for crashing into a line of Make-A-Wish bicyclists and killing Edward Erickson, 48, of Ann Arbor, and Michael Salhaney, 57, of Bloomfield Hills. Benn is also accused of injuring three others.
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She faces 15 charges from the accident where prosecutors contend she was high on a cocktail of drugs. Benn was trying to pass a UPS truck in the opposite lane when she hit the riders.
A trail date has not been set.