YORK COUNTY, Pa. — State Police have charged a 34-year-old Harrisburg man with vehicular homicide and other offenses relating to a deadly 2023 crash in York County.
Travis J. Fults was driving over the speed limit and under the influence of alcohol and multiple drugs when he caused a two-vehicle crash that claimed the life of 69-year-old Larry L. Cook on January 16, 2023, in Washington Township, state police allege.
In addition to a felony count of vehicular homicide, Fults is charged with misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving under the influence of a controlled substance, along with five related summary traffic offenses, including reckless driving and driving under a suspended license, according to court records.
According to state police, Fults was driving south on Baltimore Pike in a Lincoln Continental at about 10 p.m. when his vehicle struck the driver's side of a Mitsubishi Outlander driven by Cook, who was crossing Baltimore Pike on Roland Road to continue onto Hoffman Road.
Fults' vehicle was traveling between 74 and 92 miles per hour -- more than 30 mph over the speed limit -- when it struck Cook's car, state police claim.
Cook was pronounced dead at the scene.
Troopers found multiple open and closed alcoholic beverage containers inside Fults' vehicle at the crash scene and detected a strong odor of alcohol emanating from the car, according to the criminal complaint affidavit.
Investigators had Fults' blood drawn at York Wellspan Hospital. Test results showed a blood alcohol content of 0.124%, which is over the legal limit of 0.08% in Pennsylvania, along with a combination of marijuana and Benzodiazepine, a type of depressant normally associated with the prescription drugs Valium, Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, or Klonopin.
Troopers also discovered that Fults' automobile insurance had expired nearly three months earlier.
Court records indicate that Fults had not yet been taken into custody as of Monday morning.
