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Wrong-way driver pleads not guilty
Posted: 01.17.2008 at 11:55 AM
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TOLEDO -- Michael Gagnon, 24, the Adrian man charged in the DUI crash that killed five members of a Maryland family pleaded not guilty to five counts of Aggravated Vehicular Homicide and two counts of Aggravated Vehicular Assault. 

He is accused of driving the wrong way on I-280 on December 30 and causing the crash that killed a mother and four of her children.  The father and two other children were injured in the crash.

Gagnon is accused of having a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit in Ohio.  He faces up to 50 years in prison if convicted.

Judge Linda Jennings ordered a $1.75 million bond and has set a hearing date for February 14. 

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