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“The steering input leading in to the crash suggests the driver may have been aiming at oncoming traffic, and is wholly inconsistent with emergency steering to try and avoid a collision,” the crash reconstruction report states.
Michaels, 21, is in the Montgomery County Jail on a $3 million bond after the former Xenia resident pleaded not guilty Tuesday to six counts of murder, six counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol in a St. Patrick’s Day wreck.
County Prosecutor Mat Heck said last week that Michaels deliberately drove north in the southbound lanes March 17 on I-75, causing a wreck that killed husband and wife Timmy and Karen Thompson, and their 10-year-old daughter Tessa, all of Mason.
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A statement from Michaels’ estranged husband on July 8 indicated she told him “I’m going to drive backwards on I-75” just minutes before the triple-fatal crash occurred, according to Moraine Police Division records.
Michaels’ next court date is set for July 31.
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