LOGAN — A 69-year-old Amalga man has been and charged with felony automobile homicide months after an off-highway vehicle (OHV) crash near Newton Reservoir killed his passenger, Melissa Ann Alvares , a 38-year-old Smithfield woman.

Kevin Bingham made an initial appearance Wednesday in Logan’s 1 st District Court. He was charged with second-degree felony automobile homicide in connection with the Aug. 2 Polaris RZR crash, which occurred around 12:35 a.m. near 5800 West and 9200 North. The charge carries a sentence of 1-15 years in prison, if convicted.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, a Cache County Sheriff's deputy who responded to the scene discovered Alvares down an embankment and the RZR overturned in a field. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Bingham, who was inv

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