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24-03-2025
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Prosecutor: Man, 49, charged in high-speed Tennessee Highway 109 crash that killed couple
A 49-year-old man has been charged in connection with a September crash on Wilson County's State Route 109 that authorities say killed a married couple. Daryl W. Oldfield faces two counts of vehicular homicide by recklessness and one count of reckless endangerment with a weapon, according to Wilson County court records. The 15th Judicial District Attorney's Office confirmed the charges. Fredrick Miller, 78, and Edna Miller, 76, were killed in the crash on Sept. 6, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol's preliminary report. Oldfield has been booked and released from jail on a $40,000 bond, according to the Wilson County Sheriff's Office. Efforts to reach Oldfield and his lawyer for the case were not immediately successful. Oldfield is scheduled to be arraigned April 14 on the charges. He is accused of driving a 2018 Nissan Titan north on Highway 109 around the 5700 block of Highway 109, north of the Spence Creek neighborhood, just before the crash, according to the initial Tennessee Highway Patrol report. Police were called to the scene at 12:19 p.m. A preliminary investigation found that a 2024 Lexus RX3 was stopped in the center turn lane, preparing to turn left onto Northern Road, while a Ford Ranger was heading south. The Titan was passing traffic in the turn lane at a "high rate of speed" and crashed into the back of the Lexus, the highway patrol report says. It also notes that the Titan veered into the southbound lanes after impact with the Lexus and hit the Ford Ranger head on. The Millers were in the Ranger. The crash caused backups in both directions for much of the afternoon and intensified safety concerns on 109. Speed limit reductions were put in place for 109 in Wilson County earlier this year. Reach Andy Humbles at ahumbles@ and on X, formerly known as Twitter @ AndyHumbles. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Charges filed in Tennessee Highway 109 crash that killed man, wife
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06-03-2025
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Ex-Lebanon bus driver back in prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes involving minors
A convicted felon has pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving minors. The same defendant has served a prison sentence in a separate child sex-crime case when working as a Lebanon school bus driver. Stephen Massey, 56, pleaded guilty in January to rape of a child, sexual battery by an authority figure and sexual battery. Massey was sentenced to 25 years in prison, according to the 15th Judicial District Attorney's Office. Each crime involved different victims who were children at the time of the offense, according to the district attorney's office. The latest convictions did not involve Massey's former employment as a school bus driver, prosecutors have said. Massey's booking at the Wilson County Jail listed Carthage as his home address. Massey has been transferred to prison, according to the Wilson County Sheriff's Office. Massey served a separate five-year prison sentence that expired in July 2021 after he pleaded guilty in October 2017 to two counts of attempted solicitation of a minor. The 2017 conviction related to charges that prosecutors said occurred late in 2015 to early in 2016 when Massey was employed as a bus driver for the Lebanon Special School District. Prosecutors said that Massey manipulated two students, ages 7 and 9 at the time, to expose body parts. The latest conviction comes from a plea agreement on charges filed in 2021 for crimes that occurred in 2007-2008 and 2013-2014, and charges filed in 2023 for crimes that occurred in 2012, according to the district attorney's office. Massey's sentence is 25 years on the rape of a child conviction, six years for sexual battery by an authority figure and two years for sexual battery. The sentences run concurrently for an effective sentence of 25 years, according to the district attorney's office. Massey will be classified as a violent offender on the sex offender registry and be subject to community supervision for life. There were other charges dismissed as part of the plea agreement, prosecutors said. Reach Andy Humbles at ahumbles@ and on X, formerly known as Twitter @ AndyHumbles. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Stephen Massey, ex-Lebanon bus driver pleads guilty to sex crimes
