Man skips trial for crash that seriously injured young son in Riverside

Christopher Charles Kennedy

Credit: Montgomery County Jail

Credit: Montgomery County Jail

Christopher Charles Kennedy

A 27-year-old Dayton man is jailed without bond after he reportedly missed his trial earlier this month for a 2019 crash that seriously injured him and his 5-year-old son.

Christopher Charles Kennedy was ordered to appear for a March 9 trial before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Richard Skelton for vehicular assault and endangering children, charges for which he was indicted in April 2020.

Riverside police say Kennedy was driving a 2016 Hyundai Sonata the afternoon of Aug. 18, 2019, south on Woodman Drive near Eastman Avenue.

Kennedy went off the right side of the road, then crossed both southbound lanes before he went through a grass median and across both northbound lanes. His car then went up an embankment to the 5000 block of Eastman Avenue, where he struck a large tree, according to a Riverside police crash report.

No other cars were involved in the crash that happened during daylight hours and dry conditions, police said.

Kennedy and his young son were seriously injured. Kennedy went to Miami Valley Hospital, and the 5-year-old boy was taken to Dayton Children’s Hospital, the report stated.

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