Truck driver, Jesse Carter, of Maple Heights, has been sentenced in the .
Carter was sentenced on May 1, 2012. He will spend 31 days in a county jail, beginning later this month, and he will permanently lose his commercial driver’s license, said Sergio DiGeronimo, the city’s assistant law director. He was also fined. Carter received the maximum sentence of 180 days in prison, but the judge suspended 149 of those days.
In addition, DiGeronimo said that Carter will speak at truck driving schools and high schools about the importance of attentive driving. His accident was the result of a “moment of inattention,” DiGeronimo said. There was no evidence that he was under the influence of any chemicals or intoxicants, and his cell phone records show that he was not using the phone at the time of the accident.
DiGeronimo said the mother of the deceased asked that the sentence help create some good out of the accident.
Carter struck and killed construction worker Jonathan Costlow, 40, of Akron, in the morning of Nov. 10, 2011. He was , and pled no contest to the charges of vehicular homicide and an improper lane change in March.
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