Published: July 18, 2008 09:57 am         

Man charged with negligent homicide

SUTTONS BAY -- A downstate man involved in a deadly Leelanau County traffic crash was bound over for trial on a negligent homicide charge.

Police said Robert Nadai, 55, of Royal Oak, allegedly drove through a stop sign on Hoxie Road at Bugai Road and into the path of a vehicle carrying several people Oct. 13. Five people were sent to the hospital after the crash, and Claribel Crego Snyder, 91, of Traverse City, eventually died.

Nadai was bound over to circuit court July 11 after a district court preliminary examination, Chief Assistant Leelanau County Prosecutor Doug Donaldson said.

The negligent homicide charge is a high court misdemeanor, Donaldson said, and carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail. Nadai remains free on bond.