[cifnmedia] Truck driver pleads guilty in fatal accident
- From: Sean & Kimberly Aaron <cifn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:14:37 -0700 (PDT)
I JUST MADE A TRAFFIC STOP ON THIS GUY WEDNESDAY NIGHT. LOL CIFN*1
Truck driver pleads guilty in fatal accident
Post-Dispatch
07/09/2004
Truck driver pleads guilty in fatal accident
On the eve of his trial in St. Louis County Circuit Court, the driver of a dump
truck whose 23-ton load killed a man when the truck overturned pleaded guilty
Friday of involuntary manslaughter.
The drive, Darius Outen, 33, of St. Louis, will be sentenced Aug. 20. He had
been scheduled to go on trial Monday.
On Aug. 19, 2002, Outen ran a red light, made a sharp right turn and overturned
the dump truck at Bayless Avenue and Union Road. The rock buried a 1995 Toyota
Camry and its driver, Robert A. Kovats, 83, of south St. Louis County.
As part of a plea agreement, Judge John Ross will consider a sentence for Outen
of 120 days in prison and probation. The maximum sentence on the charge is four
years in prison.
MASCOUTAH
Small plane lands in soybean field
A small plane with engine trouble tried to land Friday at MidAmerica Airport in
Mascoutah but touched down in a soybean field, about 1,500 feet short of the
airport's runway, about 3:45 p.m., authorities reported.
The pilot and a passenger were not injured. They were described by officials as
an instructor pilot and a student, but their names were not released.
Airport director Tim Cantwell said the Cessna 172 propeller-driven plane was
owned and operated by the Scott Aero Club, which rents planes to military
personnel and their families at Scott Air Force Base. The base and its own
runway are next to MidAmerica.
"It landed with its gear down and its wings up," Cantwell said. "The only thing
better would be if it had landed on the runway."
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
Sean A. Aaron (CIFN*1)
Central Illinois Fire Network
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