Danny Weld-Ebanks, 23, a soldier at Ft. Campbell, this afternoon surrendered to officers downtown on an indictment charging him with vehicular homicide by recklessness for the June 14 crash at the I-40 east/I-24 east split that killed Nashvillian Matthew Kenigson, 47.
Weld-Ebanks is jailed in lieu of $15,000 bond.
The investigation shows that Weld-Ebanks was traveling in an Audi A4 on I-40 east at a high rate of speed in the right lanes just after midnight on June 14. Witnesses reported that he had been weaving through traffic. As the Audi approached the I-24 split, it veered to the left across the gore area to continue on I-40 east. Kenigson was in the gore area in his Nissan Frontier pickup truck which was struck in the rear by the Audi. One witness reported that the Nissan’s reverse lights were on prior to the crash. Kenigson died at the scene.
Weld-Ebanks and his passenger, Brenden Evans, 28, also of Ft. Campbell, were not seriously hurt.
