07/15/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/15/2025 14:05
Albany County District Attorney Lee C. Kindlon announced today that the 25-year-old woman who crashed into a vehicle in Selkirk last year and caused the death of another woman has admitted her guilt.
Jacklyn Parker pleaded guilty to Criminally Negligent Homicide in front of the Honorable William Little in Albany County Court.
On Aug. 19, 2024, just after 5 p.m., Bethlehem Police responded to a two-car fatal crash near 1463 River Road. Police believe Parker was travelling north on River Road when her vehicle crossed over the double yellow center line and struck a vehicle travelling south operated by Colleen Selkirk, 60 of Hannacroix, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Parker and her passenger were both transported to Albany Medical Center for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Parker has an extensive history of epileptic seizures and had been warned by her doctor that she could not operate a vehicle if she failed to take medication. Parker admitted to police that she had not taken her anti-seizure meds for more than a week and suffered a seizure as she was driving that day, just seconds before the crash.
She will face one to three years in state prison when she is sentenced on Sept. 23.
Assistant District Attorney Collin D'Arcy, Bureau Chief of the Vehicular Crimes Unit, prosecuted the case.