A Sept. 23, 2008, bench trial has been set for a Salina man accused of vehicular homicide in Sumner County.
    Lanny Carter is accused of running a stop sign and causing an accident resulting in the deaths of 10 year-old Katherine “Kat” Tredway of Wellington and her young cousin, Thomas “T.J.” Alexander of Haughton, La.
    The pair died last summer when the 2500 Chevrolet Truck driven by Carter ran a stop sign on K-53 and U.S. 81, a two-lane highway known locally as County Line Road.
    Carter, 45, was not injured in the collision, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.
    The Salina man’s defense attorney, Shawn DeJarnett, entered a non-guilty plea for his client Thursday, with Sumner County District Court Judge Scott McQuin setting the bench trial date.
    Carter did not attend Thursday’s hearing at the Sumner County Courthouse.
    Tredway is the granddaughter of Oxford police officer Bill Tredway and daughter of Wellington police officer Mike Tredway and his wife, Devena Tredway. The accident, which snarled traffic for some time, occurred near the Sedgwick/Sumner County line.
    The family was headed to Wichita to attend a family event, said Capt. Scott Funderburk.
    "I believe that Mike and other family members had left a while after the ones in the wreck. They were detoured up that way because of the wreck," Funderburk said.
    Debra Alexander, Devena Tredway's sister and Alexander’s mother, was driving the 1999 Oldsmobile van involved in the accident. Their mother, Linda Terry, was a passenger along with Michaela Alexander.
    Debra Alexander, 37, and her daughter, Michaela, 10, were treated for injuries at Via Christi Regional Medical Center - St. Francis Campus. Linda Terry, 60, was also treated and released, according to a medical center spokeswoman. The Alexanders were visiting from Haughton, La. Everyone in the van and the driver of the pickup were wearing safety restraints, the patrol reported.