Cherokee, IA (KICD)– The trial for a man charged in a fatal hit and run incident last December has been pushed back into the new year.

Now 30-year-old Casey Herwig was charged in May with knowingly leaving the scene of a fatal crash after he is believed to have hit a bicyclist with his pickup before driving away.

Herwig was originally scheduled to stand trial in September, but online court records show that date was pushed to November before being continued an additional time last week to January 23rd. In the meantime, an order has been given to compile a Pre-Sentence Investigation in anticipation of possible plea negotiations.