Trucker pleads no contest in Nebraska crash that killed 6
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A truck driver from Florida has pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a 2016 crash in western Nebraska that killed six people, including a family of five from Minnesota.
Court records say 55-year-old Tony Weekly Jr. entered the pleas Tuesday in Keith County District Court. The charges: three felony and three misdemeanor counts of vehicular homicide and one misdemeanor count of reckless driving.
Sentencing is set for July 20.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Investigators say Weekly was distracted July 31, 2016, and didn't slow down in an Interstate 80 construction zone near Brule (brool), smashing into the back of a minivan. Inside were Jamison and Kathryne Pals, of St. Paul, and their three children, aged 3 years, 2½ and 23 months.
Another man injured in the crash, Terry Sullivan, of Denver, died later.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Information from: The North Platte Telegraph, http://www.nptelegraph.com