{"id":387969,"date":"2026-07-06T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387969\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:36:31","slug":"trial-scheduled-for-rcoc-plow-truck-driver-accused-of-killing-man-in-hit-and-run-crash-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387969\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial scheduled for RCOC plow truck driver accused of killing man in hit-and-run crash \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trial is scheduled for a Road Commission of Oakland County employee accused in a New Year\u2019s Day fatal hit-and-run crash while on the job.<\/p>\n

Jury selection is set to begin on Nov. 9 in Oakland County Circuit Court for the case against Bryan Derryberry, charged with leaving the scene of a pedestrian fatality. According to the Farmington Hills Police Department, Derryberry was operating a county snow plow truck when he allegedly struck 68-year-old Edward Detroit of Sterling Heights, rendering him unconscious, and then drove away. Emergency responders called to the scene on a report of an unconscious man lying on the side of Middlebelt Round found Detroit there at approximately 8 a.m. on Jan. 1. Detroit was transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

\"mugshot\"Bryan Derryberry booking photo<\/p>\n

Derryberry was a 3-year employee for the RCOC at the time of the crash. His court file shows he\u2019s a Swartz Creek resident.<\/p>\n

The charge is punishable by up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n

Derryberry is out of custody on a $100,000 personal bond, which requires no cash or surety to be posted. The trial is assigned to Judge Martha Anderson.<\/p>\n

\"mugshot\"Devin Light booking photo (Oak Park Public Safety Dept.)<\/p>\n

Another fatal hit-and-run incident in Oakland County that happened a few weeks before the one allegedly involving Derryberry was resolved with a no contest plea in April. Devin Asa-Amon Light was sentenced in May to 320 days in jail followed by two years probation for failing to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death: disabled homeless veteran William Mapp was in a wheelchair when he was struck in Oak Park on Nov. 22, 2025. Light was sentenced by Oakland County Circuit Judge Jeffery Matis.<\/p>\n

Light, 29, is scheduled to be released from the Oakland County Jail next February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trial is scheduled for a Road Commission of Oakland County employee accused in a New Year\u2019s Day fatal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64318,131229,8296,161,156427,143,25791,145,144,156426],"class_list":["post-387969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bryan-derryberry","tag-disabled-veteran","tag-fatal-crash","tag-hit-and-run","tag-homeless-veteran-killed","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county-circuit-court","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-rcoc-worker-felony-charge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}