Prosecutors say a pickup truck driver, tiring of waiting at a Sherburne County intersection for a break in traffic, accelerated past a waiting semi and caused a collision that killed a motorcyclist.
David Jonathan Marsh, 22, of Farmington was charged on Feb. 4 with criminal vehicular homicide in connection with the collision on Oct. 14 in Elk River that killed 25-year-old Jacob Christopher Hoel of Blaine.
Marsh was charged by summons and is due in court on March 11. Court records do not list an attorney for him. The Minnesota Star Tribune has reached out to Marsh for a response to the allegations.
Hoel graduated from Centennial High School in 2018, earned a degree in construction management and was employed by the city of Ramsey as an engineering technician at the time of his death, his obituary read.
“From an early age,” the obituary continued, “Jake showed a fearless love for the great outdoors — whether it was tearing down roads on his motorcycles, snowmobiling through trails, four-wheeling through mud, or spending peaceful mornings in the woods hunting or casting a line into the water."
According to the criminal complaint:
Marsh was on 213th Avenue about 6:45 a.m. and waiting in the median after having crossed northbound Hwy. 169, when he failed to yield to southbound highway traffic and was struck on the passenger side by Hoel’s motorcycle. The pavement showed no brake marks from either vehicle.
Marsh told law enforcement that he “was late for work and growing tired of waiting for a semi ... to cross over Hwy. 169,” the complaint read.
