Driver charged in death of teen who fell from truck
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Posted 7:29AM on Tuesday, February 5, 2002
CANTON - The driver of a pickup from which another teen-ager fell to his death has been charged with second-degree vehicular homicide. <br>
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Zachary Alan Cochran, 17, of Holly Springs, could face up to a year in jail because of the accidental death of 15-year-old Joshua Reider on Jan. 22. <br>
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The boys were moving a load of lockers for the Cherokee High School baseball team when Reider was ejected from the bed of the truck onto the asphalt. Police said speed was not a factor. <br>
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``They did a re-enactment using the same truck and were able to determine that it did not take much for the officer to slide off the back of the pickup,'' Detective German A. Rivas said.