Failure to yield plea in pedestrian death draws $1,000 fine

URBANA – A Champaign man who struck and killed a pedestrian on a busy Champaign street last fall was sentenced Thursday to the maximum fine of $1,000.

Melvin M. Monroe, 43, whose last known address was in the 600 block of West Springfield Avenue, pleaded guilty to failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk before Champaign County Judge Chase Leonhard.

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