Semi-truck driver found guilty in vehicular homicide case
The driver, 50-year-old Yorkwind Crawford, plead no contest to two counts of motor vehicle homicide on Wednesday.
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – The semi-truck driver involved in an eight-vehicle crash that killed a father and his son, has been found guilty.
The driver, 50-year-old Yorkwind Crawford, plead no contest to two counts of motor vehicle homicide, a class one misdemeanor, on Wednesday.
Yorkwind was originally charged with two class three felonies of reckless/willing motor vehicle homicide.
The accident on I-80 claimed the lives of 41-year-old Mark Kaipust and 7-year-old Taylor Kaipust and sent five others to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The judge scheduled Yorkwind’s sentencing for April 1.
