Wrong-Way Driver Charged With Criminal Vehicular Homicide in Eden Prairie Crash

Overview

• Prosecutors charged Amanda Lyn Merriman, 50, with criminal vehicular homicide after a wrong-way head-on collision on westbound Highway 212 in Eden Prairie on Saturday.
• The other driver, 69-year-old Bohdan Antoniuk of Hopkins, died at the scene, and a woman riding with him was injured.
• Officers say Merriman admitted to drinking two vodka cranberry cocktails and smelled of alcohol, and a hospital blood test is pending as investigators also report finding a glass pipe and marijuana in her truck.
• Court records show her license was revoked following a 2024 DWI, she has prior DWI convictions, and she was on probation for a gross misdemeanor DWI and a meth possession case.
• She is being held on $350,000 bail and faces up to 15 years in prison and a $20,000 fine if convicted.