An elderly Colorado man faces several felony charges after investigators said he accelerated his pickup truck toward a group of pedestrians after a bicycling event.
Van Lemaster, 88, was charged with felony vehicular homicide, four counts of vehicular assault, and two counts of reckless endangerment in connection with a car crash that killed 33-year-old Joshua Douglass on Aug. 29. According to court documents obtained by local news outlet Cowboy State Daily, Lemaster was behind the wheel of his Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that day when he and an unnamed woman were preparing to leave after having lunch at a restaurant in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The same day, Fort Collins was holding its annual Tour de Fat, a costumed bicycle parade and festival, and several cyclists were riding through the same area as Lemaster while he was trying to back out of his parking space…