Prosecutors filed vehicular homicide charges Friday against the father of a 9-year-old girl who died last winter in a sledding accident.

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Madison Gecho.

Peter Gecho's first court appearance was scheduled for November 6th.

Gecho, 37, had been illegally towing his daughter Madison and a teenage boy on an inner tube behind his pick-up truck last January when he made a fast turn, flinging his daughter and the boy into a brick bench at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Vancouver, Wash., court documents show.

More: Witnesses describe what happened

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According to the criminal summons, Peter Gecho wore a ski helmet while he drove the pickup, but Madison Gecho had no head protection.

Deputies believe alcohol was a factor in the crash.

Instead of calling 911, Gecho drove his daughter to Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital, which does not have a trauma center. Hospital staff said they smelled alcohol on his breath.

Defense attorney: 'Mr. Gecho is innocent of all these allegations'

Background: Father never called 911

An ambulance transported Madison to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland. After doctors told Gecho his daughter might not survive, he called his lawyer, according to court documents.

Madison was soon pronounced dead.

If found guilty of vehicular homicide, a person with no prior criminal convictions faces a standard sentence range of 21 to 27 months in prison.