Peterkin had been charged with both aggravated vehicular homicide and vehicular homicide in April. She was behind the wheel of an RTA bus when she struck 69-year-old Joan Kuendig, who was crossing Rockwell Avenue on the northeast corner of Public Square on the morning of Dec. 7, 2016.
Peterkin was fired by RTA shortly after that incident. An RTA incident review committee found that Peterkin had slowed, but not come to a complete stop, before she turned onto Rockwell from East Roadway.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John Russo will sentence Peterkin on Nov. 13.
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2017.
