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A Colorado-based truck driving force sentenced last week in a Kansas court to five years in prison for a twist of fate that killed five other people in 2017.
According to press reports, 59-year-old driver Kenny Ford was driving a Freightliner truck when he did not slow down due to traffic blocked on Interstate 70 in Kansas near the city of Bonner Springs. Prosecutors said Ford had not slowed down as traffic approached.
He had not challenged five counts of murder while driving, reportedly. There is no evidence of drugs or alcohol in your formula at the time of the accident.
According to an account of the turn of fate in the Kansas City Star, Ford was driving for Colorado’s Indian Creek Express when he failed to notice a backtrack near 174th Street in Bonner Springs, about 20 miles west of Kansas City. According to the Star, Ford’s truck collided with a van passing through Illinois’ Teresa Butler, causing the car to become a retaining wall. This killed Butler and a passenger, Karen Lynn Kennedy, also from Illinois.
Then the truck derailed and crashed into Sheldon Cohen of Topeka. He and his wife Virginia died when they hit a railing and ended up in a ditch.
Ford’s truck then hit a car, pushing it under another van, and Ricardo Mireles, a Topeka resident, died in a fire.
According to The Star, Mireles’ wife told the court in a pre-conviction showdown that she knew Ford “didn’t aim to kill someone, but his recklessness doesn’t pass without punishment. He’s replaced so many lives and even thinking he can get out.” of this courtroom with little or no time is heartbreaking, ” he said.
The Star reported that Leavenworth County District Attorney Todd Thompson said in an email that the sentence was “as serious as can be obtained by a car homicide.” The sentence is five one-year sentences to be served consecutively. Ford’s lawyer had asked for a one-year sentence.
Shawn Boyd, the county district attorney’s assistant and the chief prosecutor in the case, said Ford was reckless in ignoring the precautionary symptoms of roadworks and setbacks when he approached the site, which was near a working toll road.
The families of the deceased obtained insurance benefits, according to Star’s article. They also sued DaimlerTrucks, the manufacturer of Freightliner.
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