A Roaring Brook Twp. man was sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars Tuesday after he caused a crash last year that killed a man on a motorcycle.
Jeremy Dickey pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle while DUI on Feb. 24.
Dickey, 46, was driving south on Route 307 in Roaring Brook Twp. on July 6 when he struck motorcyclist Christian Herbert of Taylor, who was approaching him in the opposite lane.
Dickey told state troopers responding to the crash that he was on his way back from a beer distributor and had “one or two” beers several hours earlier. Troopers noted that he smelled strongly of alcohol.
“The distance between Dickey and Herbert, when Dickey made the left turn in front of Herbert, would not allow sufficient response time for Herbert to avoid the collision,” Trooper William Fells wrote in the police affidavit following the crash.
Lackawanna County Judge Andy Jarbola also sentenced Dickey to five years of state probation following the completion of his sentence.