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Ruckdaschel Sentenced for DWI Crash



Buffalo, NY (AP) A Getzville man has been sentenced to 3 1/2 to 10 1/2 years in prison after admitting he was drunk, speeding and driving the wrong way on a Buffalo expressway when he crashed his pickup into an SUV, killing its two occupants.

Matthew Ruckdaschel was sentenced Monday in Erie County Court in Buffalo.

The 26-year-old pleaded guilty in April to aggravated vehicular homicide following the January 2011 crash on the Kensington Expressway that killed Orlando Anderson, a rental agent and father of three from Buffalo, and carpenter Thomas Johnson, a father of five from Cleveland, Ohio.

Ruckdaschel was seriously injured in the crash and remains in a wheelchair.

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Topics : Disaster_Accident, Law_Crime
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Locations : Buffalo, Cleveland, Ohio
People : Matthew Ruckdaschel, Thomas Johnson
08/13/2012 12:40PM
Ruckdaschel Sentenced for DWI Crash
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08/13/2012 6:15PM
Ruckdaschel sentence
for killing two innocent people because he was driving drunk and was high on pot he only got 31/2 years? This was total unjust to the families of the deceased.and shows that the judicial branch needs more schooling.
08/14/2012 4:34PM
Justice?
I'll never understand our "blind" justice system.
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