Man arraigned in local triple fatality crash case

WAUSEON — A Michigan man has been arraigned here in Fulton County Common Pleas Court on charges that he caused the traffic deaths of three persons last year.

Adon Glass, 21, pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, each a second-degree felony; three counts of vehicular manslaughter, each a second-degree misdemeanor; and aggravated vehicular assault, a third-degree felony.

A pretrial hearing was scheduled for March 27 and his personal-recognizance bond was continued.

The charges stem from a two-vehicle traffic crash on April 28 on U.S. 20 near Lyons in northeast Fulton County, which took the lives of two Toledo adults (Cara Charland, 32, and Robert Thomas Jr., 37), as well as a juvenile passenger, Rosalie Thomas, 1, while injuring another child in their vehicle, Yvonne Thomas, 9.

Glass also sustained injury and was hospitalized.

According to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, Glass was operating a Volkswagen hatchback that collided with a Chrysler Sedan driven by Charland. The Chrysler reportedly flipped and caught fire.

Charland and Robert Thomas Jr. died at the scene while Rosalie Thomas died several weeks later.