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Buffalo woman who fatally struck cyclist pleads guilty

A Buffalo woman who struck and killed a bicyclist and injured two others while driving on South Park Avenue in 2022 pleaded guilty Friday to criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault.

Carmen Martin, 35, faces up to four years in prison when she is sentenced Aug. 29, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s Office.

Martin was driving a Chrysler sedan westbound on South Park Avenue near the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino around 8:50 p.m. on June 17, 2022, when she struck a 32-year-old woman who was riding a bicycle, prosecutors said. Martin continued driving and struck two other women on bicycles near South Park and Columbia Street before hitting a parked vehicle near South Park and Mississippi.


Jazz musician Sara Rogers killed in car while riding her bike

Just before 9 p.m. Friday, Sara Rogers was riding her bike along South Park Avenue near the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino when a westbound Chrysler sedan struck her, according to Buffalo police.

The cyclist who died was Sara Rogers, 29, a jazz musician who provided music therapy to children.

The investigation determined that Martin suffered from a medical condition and was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the crashes, the prosecutor’s office said in a news release.

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Prosecutors did not identify Martin’s medical condition.