{"id":196927,"date":"2025-09-09T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=196927"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:15:23","slug":"indictment-issued-in-late-july-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/09\/indictment-issued-in-late-july-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Indictment issued in late July accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Van Wert County grand jury has indicted a woman in connection with a late July accident that claimed a Van Wert man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grand jury indicted Barbara Nickles, 66, of Van Wert on a single count of aggravated vehicular homicide, a first degree misdemeanor. Court records show the indictment was filed last Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nickles was initially charged with vehicular assault, a fourth degree felony, and negligent assault, a third degree misdemeanor, but the grand jury opted for a lesser charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident occurred July 28 outside of Ruler Foods. According to an accident report by the Van Wert Police Department, Nickles was operating a 2023 Cadillac XT5 while in the grocery store\u2019s parking lot and began to accelerate in reverse at a high rate of speed from her marked parking space. The report stated she struck the&nbsp;pedestrian, identified by a family member as Omar Sites, causing him to collide with another parked motor vehicle, which resulted in serious injuries. After striking Sites, Nickles continued to operate her vehicle at a high rate of speed in reverse, causing damage to multiple parked motor vehicles. Sites passed away August 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nickles is due in court Wednesday morning. If convicted of the charge, she faces up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A Van Wert County grand jury has indicted a woman in connection with a late July accident that claimed a Van Wert man. The grand jury indicted Barbara Nickles, 66, of Van Wert on a single count of aggravated vehicular homicide, a first degree misdemeanor. Court records show the indictment was filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 12:47:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196928,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196927\/revisions\/196928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}