LINCOLN, Neb. — A Florida truck driver has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular murder prices in a crash final 12 months on Interstate 80 that killed an La Vista man and his 7-year-old son.
Yorkwind Crawford, 51, of North Miami Beech, Florida, entered the pleas Wednesday in a Lancaster County courtroom and faces as much as two years in jail when he’s sentenced in April, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
Investigators stated Crawford was driving a semitrailer west on I-80 the morning of Sept. 4 when he plowed right into a line of automobiles that had slowed to exit. The primary automobile hit was the pickup truck carrying 41-year-old Mark Kaipust and his son, 7-year-old Taylor Kaipust, who died. 5 others had been injured.
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The Kaipusts had been on their approach to a Nebraska soccer sport in Lincoln once they had been killed.
An investigation confirmed Crawford had been driving the pace restrict simply previous to the crash, and that he was not impaired or utilizing his telephone on the time of the crash. As an alternative, Crawford was briefly distracted by one thing exterior his truck.
Video from contained in the truck’s cab confirmed Crawford looking his passenger-side window for less than 3 seconds earlier than the crash.
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