LAUREL, Del.- The operator of the motorcycle involved in a fatal motorcycle crash that occurred in Laurel on Friday morning, has been arrested in Virginia.
Investigators from the Delaware State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit had contacted the Virginia State Police after they received information that 28-year-old Matthew A. Kondash of Laurel was possibly staying in a campground along the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Virginia State Police found Kondash kayaking in the Kiptopeke State Park in Cape Charles late Saturday morning and took him into custody.
Kondash is currently being held in Virginia as a fugitive from justice pending his extradition back to Delaware.
Police said 78-year-old woman Eleanor B. Pusey of Laurel was hit and killed as a result of the crash that occurred shortly after 9 a.m. in front of Epworth Christian School on Sycamore Road in Laurel.
Kondash was flown from the scene of the crash to Christiana Hospital with what was thought to have been serious injuries he sustained in the crash. However, upon further examination at the hospital, it was determined that his injuries were not as serious as originally believed.
Kondash was then released from the hospital prior to investigators arriving. Police said efforts to contact Kondash were unsuccessful until he was captured in Virginia on Saturday morning.
Upon his return to Delaware, Kondash will be charged with manslaughter, driving with a suspended license, reckless driving, operating a vehicle with no insurance, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, displaying a fictitious registration plate, no motorcycle license, operating a vehicle in a no passing zone and traveling at an unreasonable speed.
Pusey was a longtime teacher's aide at Epworth Christian School, according to Tim Dukes, who is pastor of the Central Worship Center (formerly Epworth Fellowship Church), located adjacent to the school.
Matthew A. Kondash
