A preliminary hearing has been set for April 12 for a Bradford man charged with causing a crash that killed Alyssa Hawk in Duke Center in September.

Daniel W. Oaks, 31, of 15 Hemlock St., is charged with homicide by vehicle and involuntary manslaughter, as well as three counts of aggravated assault by motor vehicle and five counts of recklessly endangering another person and multiple traffic violations.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for 10 a.m. April 12 before District Judge Rich Luther in Foster Township. Oaks is represented by attorney Anthony Clarke.

He is free on 5 percent of $100,000 bail.

Hawk, 28, was Oaks’ girlfriend, and the two shared a home.

The criminal complaint in the case said police estimate Oaks was traveling at least twice the posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour when his Subaru WRX went off the road and struck a full-size pickup truck, pushing it into two side-by-side utility vehicles. Three men in the yard were seriously injured as well.

When Otto-Eldred Regional Police Officer Eric Neiswonger arrived on the scene, the crashed Subaru’s speedometer was stuck at 85 mph.

Hawk had been a passenger in Oaks’ car. The three men, Cody and Sam Pearce and Justin McDivitt, had been in the yard near the truck, which was pushed into them by the force of the crash, according to reports at the time of the crash. One man who was in the yard was not injured.

Neiswonger’s narrative of the crash explained that on Sept. 8, he was dispatched to an accident near 610 Main St. in Duke Center. When he arrived on the scene, he saw the blue car off the road, saw that it had struck the pickup truck, which had been pushed into the UTVs. Three men were on the ground in the yard, not moving.

The passenger in the car, Hawk, had no pulse when Neiswonger arrived. Police accident reconstructionists were called to assist with the investigation.

Oaks was seriously injured in the crash.