Charges have been filed against the man accused of causing a multi-vehicle crash that resulted in the death of a Manhattan Beach Police Department officer last year. Raymond Eugene Sanders, 69, of Compton was charged Tuesday with one count of vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence,

Prosecutors said lighting fixtures in a Compton man’s truck fell to the road and were a key factor in the crash. The man was charged with a misdemeanor.

Raymond Eugene Sanders, 68, was driving his truck on the northbound 405 in Carson when boxes of lighting fixtures fell from his truck because they were not properly secured, prosecutors said Tuesday.

A Compton man has been charged with a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charge in connection with a multi-vehicle collision that fatally injured a Manhattan Beach Police Department motorcycle officer last October,