{"id":62191,"date":"2025-11-20T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62191\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:58:12","slug":"woman-arraigned-on-criminal-charges-for-crash-that-killed-oakland-county-road-worker-a-father-of-6-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62191\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arraigned on criminal charges for crash that killed Oakland County road worker, a father of 6 \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Farmington Hills woman is facing criminal charges for a traffic crash last summer that killed one Oakland County road worker and injured two others.<\/p>\n

Kimberly Regina Taylor, 59, was arraigned Wednesday in 47th District Court on one count of moving violation causing death in a work zone \u2014 a 15-year felony \u2014 and two counts of moving violation causing injury in a work zone, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail for the July 23 crash in Farmington Hills.<\/p>\n

\"mugshot\"Kimberly Taylor booking photo<\/p>\n

According to the Farmington Hills Police Department, the crash happened on Orchard Lake Road near Misty Pines Drive where a crew from the Road Commission of Oakland County was working near the median. The three men were struck shortly after 11 a.m. by an SUV driven by Taylor.<\/p>\n

Cedric Jones, 43 \u2014 a married father of six \u2014 died at the scene. Co-workers George Thomas, 55, and Robert Dinkins, 57, were transported to an area hospital with serious injuries, police said.<\/p>\n

The 3-count warrant resulted from an investigation by the Farmington Hills Police Department\u2019s traffic safety section, and court records show the complaint was issued Nov. 17. As stated in a news release, Taylor \u201cpresented herself to the Farmington Hills police\u201d on Nov. 19 and was arrested.<\/p>\n

At her arraignment before Judge James Brady, Taylor was assigned a $5,000 personal bond, meaning she was released from custody with no requirement to post cash or surety. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 3 for a pre-exam conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to thank the families of the victims for their patience while we investigated the cause of this crash,\u201d Farmington Hills Police Chief John Piggott stated in the news release. \u201cThe investigators worked diligently on this case, striving to determine how this tragic crash happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my hope that today\u2019s arrest and arraignment will provide some comfort to the families, knowing that justice will be determined through the court system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Accused killer of Pontiac man arraigned on charges, denied bond<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Farmington Hills woman is facing criminal charges for a traffic crash last summer that killed one Oakland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[37572,8296,37571,143,145,144,37569,37570],"class_list":["post-62191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-farmington-hills-police","tag-fatal-crash","tag-moving-violation-causing-death-in-work-zone","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-rcoc-worker-killed","tag-road-commission-of-oakland-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62191","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=62191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}