Greensburg man waives homicide by vehicle charge
?A Greensburg man who was convicted of homicide by vehicle in 2005 for a crash that killed a Mount Pleasant woman while driving home from a methadone clinic near Uniontown, waived another vehicular homicide charge against him to court Monday stemming from the 2009 traffic death of his sister.
State police said Matthew Lunn, 49, was charged with homicide by vehicle and related traffic offenses in February before Magisterial District Judge Michael Mahady in the death of his sister, Kelly Mattocks of Latrobe.
Police said the crash occurred July 29 when Lunn’s car struck another vehicle on Route 30 in Unity Township, Westmoreland County.
Lunn waived all charges against him to Westmoreland County Court during a preliminary hearing Monday morning.
Lunn, Mattocks and several other motorists were injured in the crash, police said.
Mattocks was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital for medical treatment, police said. Forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht said she died in January 2010, about six months after the crash, from injuries suffered in the collision.
Police noted that toxicological tests indicated that while Lunn’s blood-alcohol level was below the legal limit, he had been drinking prior to the crash.
Court records indicate that Lunn served several years in prison after pleading guilty to homicide by vehicle in the death of Darla J. Rufner.
Records show Lunn was traveling home from a methadone clinic in the Uniontown area on July 30, 2002, when his vehicle struck Rufner’s vehicle head-on on Route 819 in East Huntingdon Township.
Rufner was pronounced dead at the scene.
Lunn served two years in prison after pleading guilty in 2005.
Police said Lunn remains in the Westmoreland County Prison on $25,000 straight cash bond.
A preliminary hearing for Lunn will be held at a later date before Mahady.