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VERNAL — A Uintah County woman wanted in connection with a crash that killed the driver of a street sweeper turned herself in Wednesday night.
Wilda Annie Manning, 49, showed up at the Uintah County Jail and was booked on a $1,005 warrant in an unrelated justice court case, according to Uintah County Sheriff's Cpl. Brian Fletcher. She bailed out of jail later that night.
Bureau of Indian Affairs police, who announced Tuesday that they were looking to arrest Manning on a Ute Tribal Court warrant for vehicular homicide, were notified that she'd surrendered herself at the jail, FBI spokesman Todd Palmer said. Manning, however, could not be arrested in Vernal on the tribal court warrant because of jurisdictional issues, he said.
After her release from jail, Manning was interviewed in Vernal by investigators with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and FBI. She promised to turn herself in on the tribal court warrant Thursday at the police department in Fort Duchesne, which she did, investigators said. She was booked on the vehicular homicide warrant.
Manning is accused of being impaired on June 3 when she crashed her sport utility vehicle into the back of a street sweeper in a road construction zone on the Uintah-Ouray Indian Reservation. The operator of the street sweeper, 25-year-old Steven Chet Goodrich, of Bluebell, Duchesne County, was killed in the crash.
Manning was taken to a hospital by ambulance. Investigators said they had been unable to find her since her release from the hospital.
Troopers found "little to no evidence of braking" before the impact, Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Beau Mason said. Blood tests performed on Manning shortly after the crash determined she was impaired, according to investigators.
