With trooper’s death, drunken driver could face new charges

Wayland Town Crier 6/2/11: With trooper's death, drunken driver could face new charges. With the death yesterday of state Trooper Ellen Engelhardt in a nursing home, the local man who as a drunken teenager slammed his car into her parked cruiser may now face manslaughter or murder charges, the head of the state police said. Engelhardt, a Marshfield native and longtime trooper at the time of the crash, suffered severe brain damage and other injuries on an early morning in July 2003. William Senne, then an 18-year-old Boston College student from Wayland, hit her parked police car at high speed in the Rte. 25 breakdown lane in Wareham.

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