19-year-old charged 6 months after deadly crash in Clermont County 9%

By Mary LeBus5%

7/24/2026, 1:01:18 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Biased Writer Voice, with Fundamental Attribution Error as the most egregious example at 16.9% saturation with 35 hits. Analysis detected 185 faulty-reasoning hits from 207 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25.8% and a BS Rank of 9% (19,975 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 91.30% of the article peer group.

A 19-year-old is facing charges after he allegedly ran a stop sign in Clermont County, resulting in a fatal crash. 
Sean McDonald, of Blanchester, was indicted July 23 in connection to the death of 74-year-old Dennis Skeene and seriously injuring a 70-year-old woman, according to an Ohio crash report. 
Six months after the deadly crash, a Clermont County Grand Jury indicted McDonald on one count each of aggravated vehicular homicide, vehicular homicide, vehicular manslaughter and vehicular assault, according to court documents. 
It happened on state Route 232 at the intersection of Swings Corner Point Isabel Road in Tate Township on Jan. 
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A crash report says the woman was driving westbound on the highway with Skeene as her passenger. 
McDonald was traveling south on Swings Corner Point Isabel Road before he ran a stop sign at the intersection and hit the other vehicle on the passenger side, where Skeene was sitting, the report says. 
The victims’ vehicle traveled off the road while McDonald’s hit a tree. 
Skeene and the woman both sustained serious injuries and were transported to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. 
Skeene later died from his injuries. 
Enquirer media partner Fox19 provided this report. 
Confirmation Bias
15.5%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
0%
Loss Aversion
8.7%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
11.6%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
16.9%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
3.4%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
2.9%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
15.5%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0.5%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
14.5%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

207 words analyzed.

Analysis

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