MCCLUSKY, N.D. — The driver of a prison transport vehicle that was involved in a fatal crash in Sheridan County on Aug. 4 has been charged with reckless endangerment.
Geraldine M. Miller, 58, of Towner, North Dakota, has been summoned to appear in Sheridan County District Court on the Class A misdemeanor charge on Nov. 3. Court records did not list an attorney for her.
The crash occurred at a rural intersection west of Goodrich, North Dakota. It was a collision between a van carrying two people and a Pierce County prison transport SUV driven by Miller that carried a federal inmate and one other guard besides Miller.
The vehicle Miller was driving was northbound on North Dakota Highway 14 when it failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a van that was westbound on North Dakota Highway 200, according to a North Dakota Highway Patrol report filed in court.
A passenger in the van, Philemena Evenson, 81, of Tacoma, Washington, was ejected from the vehicle and died as a result of her injuries, the patrol report said.
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Miller drove through a controlled intersection "disregarding cross traffic on a high-speed road which caused a crash to occur," court documents said.
The van was headed west to Turtle Lake, while the prison transport SUV was driving from Bismarck to Rugby, the patrol said.
