Man Charged In Meriden Fatal Crash: Police

MERIDEN, CT — Police have charged a man in connection with a fatal wreck last year. Quron Zene, of Hartford, was charged with evading responsibility resulting in the death of a person, negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, failure to use care to avoid pedestrian, and two counts of tampering/fabrication of evidence.

He was released on $100,000 bond.

Police wrote in a statement that they received numerous phone calls regarding a person lying on the side of the road in the southbound lane of the 2000 block of North Broad Street on April 9 at 11:09 p.m.

Officers arrived and found a woman suffering from a serious head injury. She had been struck by a motor vehicle which fled. The victim, Cynthia Daigle, was transported to Hartford Hospital where she died due to her injuries the next morning.

Daigle had been working the evening shift at a factory in Berlin, then left work at 11 p.m. and dropped her car off at a mechanic's business on North Broad Street. She was walking to her home when she was hit by a motor vehicle.

Surveillance footage from area businesses caught the wreck on security camera, according to police. Police said footage showed that a Budget rental truck struck the victim then fled.

Police released information about the case to the public and received a tip that directed investigators to the suspect vehicle, which police found and impounded.

The driver was identified as Zene, according to police. He was a driver for Sheffield XPR LLC, of MA.