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Wisconsin woman sentenced for role in 2008 fatal car crash
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009
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A Turtle Lake, Wis., woman has pleaded guilty and was sentenced for her role in the Aug. 5, 2008 fatal car crash that claimed the life of driver’s education instructor Neil Stoeckel of rural Isanti. Neil Stoeckel
Elizabeth A. Miller, 62, was sentenced to a 90-day jail term for inattentive driving on Aug. 5, 2009, announced Chisago County Attorney Janet Reiter. The term was stayed on the condition she have no same or similar violations within one year and complete the terms of her one year probation.
In addition, Miller was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, with $700 stayed and complete 100 hours of community work service, with at least 10 hours of that served by speaking to young drivers about the dangers of inattentive driving, Reiter said.
Stoeckel had been an instructor for Chisago Lakes Driver Education and was a passenger in a CLDE vehicle when it was struck broadside by a vehicle driven by Miller who failed to stop for the traffic signal at U.S. Hwy. 8 and Chisago Co. Rd. 23.
It was determined the 15-year-old student driver, of Lindstrom, who was not injured, had the right of way as the driver’s education car proceeded through the intersection. Neil Stoeckel’s family requested that Miller be required to speak to student drivers as part of her sentence, Reiter said.
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