A Lake Orion man accused of a hit-and-run crash that killed an Auburn Hills man last year has opted out of trial.
At a recent hearing in Oakland County Circuit Court, 35-year-old Kenneth Briddnell Carroll pleaded no contest to nine crimes connected to the June 6, 2024 crash that resulted in the death of Thomas Jerome Fisher, 68. The collision happened on Walton Boulevard near Perry Street in Auburn Hills, and also caused critical injuries to Carroll’s passenger.
Carroll is scheduled to be sentenced on March 18 by Judge Yasmine Poles for reckless driving causing death — a 15-year felony — as well as reckless driving causing serious impairment of bodily function, narcotics possession, fleeing and eluding, failing to stop after the crash and driving without a valid license.
According to police, Carroll fled after crashing a Kia Forte into a Ford F-150 pickup truck, trapping Fisher in the Ford F-150. Fisher was subsequently extricated and transported to an area hospital where he died, police said…