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Idaho Trucker gets Prison Time in Fatal ND Crash

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MINOT, N.D. (AP) – An Idaho truck driver convicted in a fatal crash in North Dakota has been sentenced to serve three years in prison.

A jury in August convicted 58-year-old Clark Christensen, of Shelley, Idaho, of negligent homicide. He initially had faced a more serious charge of manslaughter.

Authorities say Christensen was driving a semitrailer that plowed into several vehicles stopped at a red light just west of Minot in May 2013 because his brakes were not properly maintained. Christensen said a sneezing fit and not bad brakes led to the crash.

Eight vehicles were damaged or destroyed, and 21-year-old Megan Shoal was killed. She was a Minot State University student from Plentywood, Montana.

KXMC-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1xcENle ) that Christensen was given credit for more than a year’s time he’s already spent in prison.

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