Toledo,OH : Truck driver sentenced to 2 years for fatal crash on U.S. 24 on July, Friday 28th 2017

When a truck driver from Dearborn Heights, Mich., stopped his semi tractor-trailer in the left lane of a busy U.S. 24, that semi became “a weapon of great destruction,” Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Ian English said Friday.

An approaching car driven by 20-year-old Elliot Struble of Maumee tried to avoid Eshtar Salman's rig, swerved, and struck the right rear corner of the semi. Miss Struble did not survive.

“What caused this tragedy was a truck in the middle of the road for no reason,” Judge English said before sentencing Salman. “It was a crime, and a sentence must prevent him and others from ever doing anything like that again.”

Salman pleaded no contest and was found guilty June 7 of involuntary manslaughter for causing Miss Struble's death on March 25, 2016. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors said they would not oppose community control rather than prison for Salman. Still, Judge English said he had to consider the purposes of sentencing, which include protecting the public from future crime by this defendant and others.




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Truck driver sentenced to 2 years for fatal crash on U.S. 24