It looks like the tragic accident that killed four people along University Drive in Elon last July will finally be put to rest, at least in a legal sense.
A jury yesterday found Robin Stanfield guilty of four counts of misdemeanor death by vehicle for the accident in which her car ran off the road and struck four people loading a disabled car onto a trailer on University Drive. A District Court judge found Stanfield guilty of the charges in January, but she appealed that decision:
After the verdict was read, Stanfield’s father, Roger Stanfield, said the trial was fair, which is all his family wanted, but added that “it seems like (the jurors) had their minds made up.”
He said that whatever the sentence may be, “We are going to live with it.”
Larry Isley, the lone survivor of the accident, said he was happy with the verdict. He said that though this may put an end to the case legally, “it will never be over.”
“Part of me died on the side of the road that day,” he said. “There are no apologies, nothing anybody can do to change that.”
Isley’s mother, Mildred Isley, is no doubt the part of himself that died on the side of the road that day.
It still has not been exactly determined what caused Stanfield to lose control of her car.
