The student who was driving the vehicle in which the journalist David Halberstam was killed two months ago will be charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, the San Jose Mercury News reported on Thursday.
Kevin Jones, a graduate student in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, was chauffeuring Halberstam, 73, to an interview on April 23, when the accident occurred in Menlo Park, Calif.
Mr. Jones, 26, turned left into the path of a vehicle that had a green light, and Halberstam died of internal injuries. If convicted, Mr. Jones could be jailed for as long as one year and fined $1,000. He was among a group of students selected to chauffeur visiting writers. —Don Troop
