State v. Langenkamp

Walters, Judge.

Appellant, Toby J. Langenkamp, appeals a judgment of the Celina Municipal Court, Mercer County, convicting him of vehicular homicide pursuant to R.C. 2903.07, a first-degree misdemeanor. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

On October 13, 1998, appellant was driving northbound on State Route 716, a two-lane road in a rural stretch of Mercer County, when he came upon a slow-moving, full-size pickup truck towing a sixteen-foot trailer. Thereafter, appellant moved into the southbound lane of traffic in an attempt to pass the pickup truck in front…