Jack McCaffery found guilty of traffic offense stemming from fatal accident

Lang
9/12/23

The youngest son of University of Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery has been found guilty of a traffic offense stemming from a fatal accident earlier this year.

A jury on Tuesday found 17-year-old Jack McCaffery guilty of Failure to Yield to a Pedestrian. McCaffery struck 45-year-old Corey Hite of Cedar Rapids as Hite was crossing Melrose Avenue near West High School on the afternoon on May 22nd. Hite had been waved across by another motorist who had stopped. He died Sunday, June 4th as a result of the injuries sustained in the crash.

McCaffery’s sentencing is set for October 13th.