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Plainville Man to be Charged in Accident That Left One Dead, Two Injured
The Southington Police Department holds an active warrant for Edward Fascendini in connection with a February accident on Queen Street that left two women seriously injured and killed Yan Qiao "Joanne" Chen.
A Plainville man already in the custody of the state is about to face charges related to a fatal hit and run accident on Queen Street that left one woman dead and seriously injured two others, police said Friday.
Edward Fascendini, 46, has active warrants for his arrest and is set to face charges including one count of misconduct with a motor vehicle and three counts of evading responsibility is an accident, Southington Police Sgt. Jeffrey Dobratz said.
Fascendini remains in state custody on unrelated charges and will be served the warrants and arraigned at his next court date on May 9, according to police.
“(Police) were able to forensically link Fascendini’s vehicle to this accident,” Dobratz said in a press release. “Additional information was also obtained through an informational checkpoint that was conducted by the Southington Police Department the night after the accident”
The Feb. 12 accident, which occurred just days after a blizzard left high snow banks along the road, left Hong “Rita” Yang and Liu “Emily” Huai, both 23 seriously injured, as well as killing 23-year-old Yan Qiao “Joanne” Chen.
Yang and Huai have since been released from the hospital but are continuing to recover from their injuries, police said Friday.
According to a police report, the three women were walking south along Queen Street after leaving their jobs at Gobi Mongolian Grill when Fascendini allegedly struck them with his white Dodge pickup truck. He proceeded to flee the scene, police said, heading north along Queen Street and leaving the women lying in the roadway.
The Southington Police Department Accident Investigation Team, the Southington Police Detective Division and the State Police Central District Major Crime Squad each investigated the accident.
The investigation remain open, police said Friday, and anyone with additional information is asked to contact the Southington Police Department at (860) 621-0101 or Officer Timothy Wilk at (860) 378-1600, ext. 2352 or by email at twilk@southingtonpolice.org.
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