A New York teenager out for a late- night drive in an
all-terrain vehicle was charged with negligent vehicular homicide under the
influence of alcohol after a crash that killed his passenger and prep-school
roommate at the luxury Yellowstone Club resort in Montana.
James Sinclair Welch, 19, son of Welch Capital Partners LLC
founder Leighton Welch of Bronxville, was arrested about 11:50 p.m. on Aug. 2
by the Montana Highway Patrol, according to state court documents. The victim,
Parker Regan, 19, of Mendham, New Jersey, was a son of R. Christopher Regan,
co-founder of the Chartis Group, a health-care consultancy.
The accident occurred at the Yellowstone Club, a private ski
and golf resort near Big Sky, Montana. Welch was driving a 2012 Polaris Ranger
Crew, a four-wheel- drive vehicle, and told police he was making a left turn on
Andesite Ridge Road when Regan “fell out,” according to an affidavit by Trooper
Joshua Brown and a citation he issued….
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