Bethel man arrested in fatal Mother’s Day crash
BETHEL — Police have charged a 66-year-old local man with misconduct with a motor vehicle in connection with a two-vehicle crash over Mother’s Day weekend that killed another driver.
Bradley Stock also was charged Friday with failure to keep right on a curve and unsafe passing, Bethel police said in a news release.
On May 10, police responded to a crash on Route 53 near Mansfield Street.
Both drivers were extricated from their vehicles by fire personnel and taken to Danbury Hospital.
Three days later, the other driver died from her injuries, police said.
“An investigation by Bethel Police determined that the crash occurred when a northbound vehicle, operated by Bradley Stock, crossed over the center line while passing another northbound vehicle,” the news release said.
Stock’s vehicle was “traveling at a high rate of speed” when it collided head-on with a vehicle in the southbound lane.
Police have not released the identity of the driver killed, but Patricia Moriarty said the victim was her 78-year-old mother, Barbara Camlek.
Moriarty said her mother died from her injuries after being airlifted to Yale New
Haven hospital’s trauma unit.
Camlek’s obituary describes her as “an avid reader” who “took great pleasure in preparing holiday meals for her family.”
“Barbara took enormous pride in collecting lifelong friends from Queens, Holbrook, Bethel and Fort Myers,” her obituary said.“While she relished spending time with her family, her crowning achievement was being ‘Grandma.’ ”
Stock turned himself in after police obtained a warrant for his arrest. He was released after posting
$20,000 in bond.
He is due to appear Oct.
20 in state Superior Court in Danbury.