OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A truck driver has been given 90 days in jail for colliding with a motorcycle in western Douglas County as he was talking on a hands-free wireless device.
Court records say 48-year-old Michael Green was sentenced Thursday. He’d pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular homicide.
The accident occurred Aug. 9. Authorities say 18-year-old Madeline Fitzpatrick was a passenger on the motorcycle being driven by Jason Matthews when it collided with Green’s semitrailer at an intersection. She was pronounced dead at the scene, and Matthews was hospitalized.
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