Bus driver seeks lighter term in fatal I-380 crash in 2018
April 5, 2021
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SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) A New York bus driver is seeking a lighter sentence in an interstate crash in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed a woman and injured several others 2 1/2 years ago.
The public defender representing 52-year-old Charles Dixon argued Monday that a Lackawanna County judge “essentially gave” his client the statutory maximum in sentencing him March 8 to nine years and nine months to 20 1/2 years, The (Scranton) Times-Tribune reported.
First Assistant Public Defender Joseph Kalinowski said during a brief virtual hearing that “with everything either maxing out or in the aggravated range the court may not have fully considered his client s “background and personal characteristics and the circumstances of the case.
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Bus driver in deadly crash sent to state prison
Investigators said Charles Dixon was under the influence when he crashed in Lackawanna County, killing one passenger in his bus. Author: WNEP Web Staff Updated: 1:09 PM EST March 9, 2021
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. The bus driver at the wheel during a deadly crash in Lackawanna County has been sentenced to prison.
Charles Dixon was sentenced Monday to nine years, nine months to 20 1/2 years in state prison.
Dixon pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle while DUI and aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI in December.
Dixon was behind the wheel of a Big Red Bullet bus driving from Ithaca to New York City in October of 2018 when he veered off Interstate 380 in Covington Township and ended up in the woods.