Distracted Trucker Sentenced for Fatal Crash BUFFALO (wned) - An Ohio truck driver responsible for a fatal crash involving of a mother of two from Snyder on the New York State Thruway last winter has been sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison.

45-year-old Thomas Wallace of Brook Park, Ohio, admitted to being both tired and distracted when his tractor-trailer struck a stalled vehicle, killing its owner, Julie Stratton. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in May.

Stratton's vehicle was stalled in the passing lane after having hit a deer. Wallace was found to have been watching pornography on a laptop computer at the time of the crash.

Judge Robert Noonan called Wallace's actions "grossly irresponsible." Wallace issued a tearful apology to Stratton's family in Gennesse County Court.

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