Driver in Fatal Uber Autonomous Crash Set for June Trial

An interior view moments before an Uber SUV fatally struck a woman in Tempe, Ariz., on March 18, 2018, in what was the first death involving a fully autonomous vehicle. Tempe Police Department via AP

PHOENIX—An Arizona Uber driver involved in the first death connected to a fully autonomous vehicle will be tried in June on a negligent homicide charge.

Rafaela Vasquez, 49, previously had been scheduled for trial next month in the March 2018 crash that killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she walked a bicycle outside the lines of a crosswalk in Tempe, Arizona. Vasquez’s trial was rescheduled during a brief hearing Tuesday.