Monday, August 05, 2019

Newton County Prosecuting Attorney plea bargained 2017 traffic arrest of Springfield man charged with DWI in triple-fatality crash

While no previous DWI arrests are listed in Missouri online court records for the Springfield man who is being held without bond in the Greene County Jail for allegedly driving drunk when he caused the crash that killed three members of a Reeds Spring family Saturday night, Andrew Matthew Lynch had a 2017 run-in with the Highway Patrol in Newton County.

Newton County Circuit Court records show a Highway Patrol trooper clocked Lynch, 29, who was driving a Ford F-150, going 89 miles per hour in a 70 mile per hour zone.

Under a plea agreement with the Newton County Prosecuting Attorney's office, Lynch pleaded guilty January 17, 2018, to a reduced charge of defective equipment and was fined $464.50.

Such a reduction would not have been permitted had Lynch been driving one mile per hour faster.








Online records show three other guilty pleas to traffic offenses, two for not wearing a seat belt and one for failure to stop at a stop sign, all in Greene County.

Lynch has been charged with driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest, careless and imprudent driving and leaving the scene of an accident in connection with the crash at the intersection of Glenstone and Kearney.

Killed in the accident were Jamin Seabert, 41, Kimberly Seabert, 41, both of Reeds Springs, and Braeden Seabert, 19, Watseka, Illinois.

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