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Professor at BU faces charge in fatal crash

By Jenna Russell

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 22, 2011

A well-known Boston University journalism professor and former longtime ABC News correspondent will be charged with vehicular homicide in connection with an October accident that killed a 26-year-old Plymouth man. Robert Zelnick, 71, of Brookline, is scheduled to be arraigned next month on misdemeanor charges of failing to yield to oncoming traffic and vehicular homicide, police and court officials said. The accident happened around noon on Friday, Oct. 7th, at the intersection of Route 3 and Clark Road in Plymouth, near the Pinehills Golf Club.

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