LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Florida truck driver has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular homicide charges in a crash last year on Interstate 80 that killed a La Vista man and his 7-year-old son.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports that 51-year-old Yorkwind Crawford, of North Miami Beach, Florida, entered the pleas Wednesday and faces up to two years in jail when he's sentenced in April.
Investigators say Crawford was driving a semitrailer west on I-80 the morning of Sept. 4 when he plowed into a line of vehicles, including the back of a pickup truck carrying 41-year-old Mark Kaipust and 7-year-old Taylor Kaipust, who died. Five other people were injured.
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