Hall County Solicitor-General Larry Baldwin confirmed Friday that Sarah Gibson, a 71-year-old Gainesville woman, was charged this week with failure to yield and misdemeanor vehicular homicide. This charge was in connection to a car wreck which took the life a popular teenager from Lula, Georgia.

The teenager who lost his life in the accident was eighteen-year-old Charles Scott Caston, a North Hall High School senior. Ms. Gibson was charged with turning her vehicle left off Nopone Road without yielding to a vehicle driven by Caston’s mother. According to investigators, Gibson’s car, after stopping at a stop sign, proceeded left onto Clarks Bridge Road and struck the Caston's vehicle, causing it to overturn.

Caston was a member of the North Hall High School track team and planned to attend Young Harris College. He was employed by the local YMCA.

Solicitor-General Larry Baldwin said that he consulted with the Caston family about the charges. The prosecutor said it took 16 months to bring charges in the fatal wreck because of a wait for the state patrol to complete its crash reconstruction and then conduct follow-up interviews with emergency medics who were at the scene.

Gibson was not cited immediately after the wreck. She was served the citation by a Georgia State Patrol official on Monday and was not required to be booked into the Hall County jail, Baldwin said. Misdemeanor vehicular homicide charges carry a maximum penalty of a one thousand dollar fine and 12 months in jail.

According to Gibson's defense attorney Robert Chanler, "It’s a tragic accident, but I don’t think it was anything more than that," Chandler said "It was certainly not a criminal act."

Solicitor Baldwin said the Castons had concerns that Ms. Gibson may have been DUI, but the investigation turned up no evidence of this.