Kenneth Barbour, now 55, was driving the tractor-trailer that hit Sydney Aichs’ car on the morning of May 9, 2008.

Barbour faces up to 10 years for manslaughter and up to 12 months in jail for reckless driving.

In the seven months since the accident that killed an Albemarle High School girl, many changes have been made to a stretch of U.S. 29 that was already considered dangerous.

Unquestionably, the intersection at U.S. 29 and Ashwood Boulevard requires improvement.

The Waynesboro truck driver indicted in the May 9 crash that killed 16-year-old Sydney Aichs turned himself in Thursday, police said.

Kenneth Barbour faces charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless driving.

A Waynesboro truck driver was indicted Monday in a May 9 crash that killed 16-year-old Albemarle High School student Sydney Aichs.

A Waynesboro man was indicted today in a tractor-trailer crash that killed a 16-year-old Albemarle High School student.

The “Please Brake for Sydney” signs are heartrending. So are the masses of flowers at the entrance to Forest Lakes South near the spot where she died.

At 7:08 a.m. Friday, the Sydney Aichs was preparing to make a left turn from Ashwood Boulevard onto southbound U.S. 29, police said. A short time later, emergency crews responded to the intersection to find that a tractor-trailer had plowed into her black 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier. Authorities pronounced Aichs dead at the scene.