A major donor to the Greenlee School of Journalism has been charged with nine criminal counts in relation to a December crash that left one person dead, The Denver Post reported. 

Bob Greenlee, 75, has been charged with vehicular homicide, criminally negligent homicide, vehicular assault, two counts of careless driving causing injury, reckless driving, speeding, reckless endangerment and improper passing on the left.

The charges come after a woman was killed and Greenlee, the former Boulder, Colorado mayor, was seriously hurt in a five-vehicle, chain-reaction crash on the La Veta Pass in late December.

Greenlee is an Iowa State journalism graduate and businessman. After leaving Iowa State, he helped form Fultz, LaCasse & Greenlee, a full service advertising agency and public relations firm in Des Moines. In 1996, he and his wife, Diane, founded the Greenlee Family Foundation.

The Greenlee Family Foundation is a private grant-making organization.

According to the Greenlee website, Bob Greenlee and Diane Greenlee serve on the school’s advisory council as permanent members.

In 1998, Bob and Diane Greenlee donated $9 million to Iowa State to create the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication.

The Denver Post reported at the time of the incident that the Colorado State Patrol said Greenlee was driving a 2003 Cadillac Escalade westbound on the highway when he “went into oncoming traffic to pass a vehicle and struck [Patricia] Lucero’s 2010 Toyota Camry.”

Lucero was pronouced dead on the scene. 

The Denver Post reported that “the Camry then hit a tractor-trailer before crossing into the highway’s westbound lanes and striking a 2006 Kia Spectra, authorities say. The Escalade continued westbound and hit an eastbound BMW X5 head-on, causing the BMW to roll onto its side, according to investigators.”

An arraignment for Greenlee is scheduled for March 28.