A New Castle man is charged with vehicular homicide and traffic offenses following a crash on Route 40 in Bear that claimed the life of a woman who was on a motorcycle.
According to Delaware State Police, 46-year-old Omar Mendoza was driving eastbound on Pulaski Highway near Fir Avenue Sunday morning at about 10:00, when he went through a stop sign at the cross-over and drove diagonally in the wrong direction. A westbound motorcycle hit the car, and its driver and passenger were thrown.
A 44-year-old New Castle woman who was a passenger on the motorcycle died at the scene. A 36-year-old Bear man who was operating the motorcycle was hospitalized and is expected to survive.
Mendoza also needed hospital treatment. Then, he was taken to Howard R. Young Correctional Institution.
Mendoza is charged with:…