Tina Marie Phillips was sentenced Monday after being convicted last year of homicide by vehicle for this crash on Oct. 25, 2021, that killed postal worker Chad Varner, who was delivering mail to a Morris Township home in Greene County when he was struck by her vehicle.
A Greene County woman who was speeding and driving recklessly when she drove off the road and crashed into a mailman who was delivering a package to a house, killing him more than three years ago, was sentenced to serve nearly a year in jail.
Tina Marie Phillips cried and hugged family members following her sentencing Monday afternoon at the Greene County Courthouse before sheriff’s deputies took her into custody, all while the family of Chad Varner watched in the courtroom just a few feet away.
President Judge Lou Dayich sentenced Phillips, 49, of Morris Township, to serve 10 to 23 months in the Greene County jail after finding her guilty of homicide by vehicle, aggravated assault by vehicle and involuntary manslaughter on Oct. 28 following a two-day bench trial earlier that month.
According to evidence presented at trial, Phillips was driving recklessly and speeding at around 70 mph on Oct. 25, 2021, when her car left the road and fatally struck Varner as he delivered a package to 180 Andrews Road in Morris Township. Varner, 49, of Spraggs, was unable to fit the package in the mailbox, so he was walking it to the home’s door when he was fatally struck.
