Friends and family wore yellow ribbon pins Tuesday in remembrance of a man killed in a 2018 vehicle crash during the first day of the trial for the woman accused of his death.

On June 29, 2018, David Vandoren, 50, died as a result of blunt force trauma when his motorcycle was hit by a vehicle on Route 19, Lancaster Township.

The vehicle was driven by Teresa S. Lim, 25, of Colorado, and she was charged with homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter and other charges.

The trial began Tuesday, Jan. 17, and will resume Wednesday, Jan. 18 before Common Pleas Judge Timothy McCune. A jury of six women and seven men heard the testimony of five witnesses.

Laura Pitchford, assistant district attorney, set the scene of the crash by explaining that Vandoran was traveling in the northbound lane on Route 19 when he was hit by Lim, who was attempting to pass someone in the southbound lane.

“You’ll see (the area) is a blind hill, there’s a reason it’s a no passing zone,” she told the jury.

During opening statements, defense attorney Michael Zunder described the crash as a “tragic accident,” as Lim was an inexperienced driver at 20 years old.

“(Lim) has to live with the fact that her actions resulted in someone’s death,” he said. “She will testify she’s not gotten behind the wheel since that day. She can’t do it, and she has no intent of doing it.”

Zunder said it was the jury’s job to determine if Lim’s actions were reckless, and that this could be determined only if she was aware of the risk of death and consciously disregarded it.

“I’m asking when you apply the law to the facts that you find the defendant not guilty,” he said.

Pitchford first called Oliver and Michele Keefer to the witness stand. Both separately testified they were traveling south on Route 19 around 10:30 p.m. that night when a car passed them on the left.

“There’s a knoll, you can’t see north traffic coming,” Oliver said. “I believe it’s a no passing zone.”

Both Michele and Oliver testified there are multiple hills on Route 19 that create visibility issues.

Oliver said the Lim’s speed alarmed him, as well as the sound of the car accelerating as it passed.

“I said to my wife, ‘Oh my God, she’s going to hit that motorcycle,’” he said.

Oliver testified that he hadn’t finished that sentence when the vehicles collided.

Michele said she saw the motorcycle traveling north before noticing Lim’s vehicle.

“I saw the headlight of the motorcycle, a split second later I heard the roar of an engine,” she said. “Coming up over the rise was when I first noticed a motorcycle. ... It’s definitely a no-passing zone, you can’t see.”

Officer Erik Magness was called as the third witness, who said he took Lim’s statement on scene and noticed oddities in her vehicle.

He testified that the driver’s side of the dashboard was covered in sticky notes with motivational phrases on them.

“It was messy. ... I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said.

Photos displayed in court showed that part of the speedometer in Lim’s vehicle was obstructed by the notes.

Magness further described the visibility on that stretch of Route 19 as “horrible,” and pointed out signs in the exhibits that mark it as a no-passing zone.

He later said that the road has a dotted line for passing vehicles on the northbound side of Route 19, but has a solid line on the southbound side.

Pitchford asked if passing a vehicle when a lane converts back to a solid line is a violation of the traffic code, to which Magness said it was.

In cross-examination, Zunder asked Magness if he inquired after Lim’s familiarity with the area, as she was in Pennsylvania for a college internship. Magness indicated he did not ask.

Edmund Sichler, an accident reconstructionist with state police, testified to what he observed at the scene a week following the crash.

He said that gouge marks were visible on the northbound side of the road where the two vehicles collided and tire marks indicated that Lim slammed on her breaks after the impact.

Air bag control module data pulled from Lim’s vehicle showed her merging into the northbound lane, accelerating to between 62 and 67 mph before turning sharply to the right. The posted speed limit is 55.

“At the time of the impact, she was fully in the northbound lane,” Sichler said. “I would not have passed in that area.”

Zunder asked Sichler if violations were given for exceeding the speed limit, as Lim allegedly was, to which Sichler said it wasn’t common.

The final witness was Carrie Copp, who said she happened upon the scene of the crash with her husband.

She said she was present when Vandoren died and heard Lim’s testimony on scene.

“(Lim) said a car was going too slow, she passed, and she hit the guy on the bike,” she said. “I drug her over to show her what that caused … It was rough.”

The trial will reconvene at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the county courthouse.