Davis, CA : Driver in fatal West Sac collision charged with manslaughter on Wednesday, March 15th 2017

The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office has filed a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charge against a West Sacramento garbage truck driver who struck and killed UC Davis professor Kentaro Inoue as he biked to work last summer.

Craig Michael Tivey, 40, is scheduled to be arraigned at 9:30 a.m. in Yolo Superior Court.

A charging complaint filed in court March 9 alleges that Tivey committed vehicular manslaughter “while driving a vehicle in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony, but without gross negligence.”

The unlawful act was an unsafe turning movement, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven.Kentaro Inoue, a professor of plant sciences at UC Davis, was struck and killed while bicycling last August in West Sacramento. Courtesy photo

West Sacramento police, who investigated the fatal collision on Aug. 31, 2016, said both Inoue and Tivey were traveling westbound on West Capitol Avenue at about 7:50 a.m. when Tivey made a right turn into a trailer park and struck Inoue.

Inouye, a 47-year-old plant sciences professor, died at the scene. Police said that Tivey immediately stopped and remained on scene, and that neither alcohol nor drugs were believed to be factors in the collision.

No arrests were made at the time, and the case was forwarded to the District Attorney’s Office for a review of whether charges should be filed.

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Driver in fatal West Sac collision charged with manslaughter