CHARLOTTE
A temporary employee driving a city trash truck has been charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle after his truck flipped and killed a motorist in west Charlotte.
Police say Malaki Ysrayl, 43, was driving a Freightliner yard waste truck Friday afternoon on Billy Graham Parkway when he tried to turn right onto West Boulevard, The Charlotte Observer reported.
Investigators say he was going at least 31 miles per hour when he started the turn. The truck overturned and landed on Robert Stark's Toyota Highlander, in the left-turn lane on West Boulevard.
Stark, a 70-year-old from West End, N.C., was declared dead at the scene. Two relatives in the SUV, 69-year-old Francis Stark and his son Erik Stark, sustained minor injuries. Florence Dubois, 35, was trapped for over an hour in the Highlander's wreckage. She is in fair condition at Carolinas Medical Center.
Dubois and Erik Stark were returning to New York after Thanksgiving and the family was on their way to drop them off at the airport.
"They were about three minutes away," said Karl Stark, Robert Stark's other son.
Ysrayl, of Concord, had been driving trucks for Charlotte for a month and was hired as a temp from Metro Staffing. A city spokesman said he was licensed to drive the truck and had no other wrecks before Friday.
A criminal record check showed Ysrayl has no prior arrests in North Carolina. He was being held late Monday in jail under $4,000 bond.
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