After a nearly six-month police investigation that involved tracking down Outside witnesses and reconstructing a fatal crash, a local man is charged with dangerous driving causing death.

Robert Clifford Foster, 40, is scheduled to make his first court appearance on the criminal driving charge on Jan. 28.

Back on July 22, a 67-year-old Utah man was waiting for a city bus when a 2003 Subaru car careened out of control and slammed into the Quartz Road bench on which he was sitting.

Austin Avelar Avrit was pronounced dead at the scene.

The man behind the wheel was able to walk away from the crash after both the car and the American bus patron were thrown over a small bank off the side of the road. When police officers arrived, they found the car on its roof next to a walking trail along the Yukon River.

After an exhaustive search by the Yukon's chief coroner, a woman who knew Avrit from years before was able to identify the man from a photo. None of the man's family has ever been found, despite work by the RCMP and U.S. authorities.

Wal-Mart stores in several U.S. states where Avrit was known to have lived also put up the man's photo in their premises, but were also unable to help find his family.

At the time, Avrit was travelling through the Yukon, and had been travelling in Utah, Texas and Florida before that. At one point, the man lived in Salt Lake City, Utah.