A Bowling Green man charged in connection with a deadly two-vehicle accident on Russellville Road will be arraigned Tuesday on new charges.

A grand jury meeting last week returned a nine-count indictment against Imata Songolo, 20, of Bowling Green, charging him with vehicular homicide, first-degree assault, first-degree wanton endangerment, first-degree criminal mischief, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (second offense), fourth-degree assault, reckless driving, no operator’s license and failure of non-owner to maintain required insurance.

Songolo is accused of being impaired while driving a 2019 Nissan Sentra that hit a 2016 Chevrolet Equinox Nov. 1 on Russellville Road, causing the death of Asenda Lotemba, a passenger in the Equinox.

City police initially took Songolo into custody on charges of vehicular homicide and DUI, with the grand jury adding several charges in the indictment.

The two assault counts are based on allegations that Songolo’s actions led to the injuries of two other occupants in the Equinox.

Songolo is due to appear Tuesday before Warren Circuit Judge J.B. Hines for arraignment.

At a preliminary hearing held in November in Warren District Court, Detective Ryan Dillon of the Bowling Green Police Department testified that a woman who lived nearby heard the crash in the 2300 block of Russellville Road, went to the scene and called 911.

Lotemba was pronounced dead at the scene.

BGPD investigators obtained security camera footage from a nearby business that showed the crash.

Dillon testified that the footage appears to show Songolo’s southbound vehicle veering into the northbound lane and colliding head-on with the vehicle carrying Lotemba, who was in the back seat.

“We believe that both vehicles were traveling above the posted speed limit,” Dillon said at the November preliminary hearing.

Songolo had to be extracted from the driver’s seat of his vehicle by members of the Bowling Green Fire Department.

A doctor at The Medical Center, where Songolo was taken for treatment, told police that Songolo’s ethanol level appeared to be very high, which led BGPD to obtain a search warrant for two blood tests to determine Songolo’s blood alcohol content.

“At the hospital, after Mr. Songolo realized what happened, he claimed he wasn’t the driver even though he had to be cut out of the driver’s seat of the car,” Dillon said in court.

Songolo was transferred to University of Louisville Hospital for further treatment, and was booked into Warren County Regional Jail on Nov. 15, where he remains under a $1 million cash bond.