Oregon man pleads guilty following fatal crash with community college softball team bus

An Oregon antheral has pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of second-degree manslaughter pursuing a fatal clang with a autobus carrying a assemblage assemblage softball squad that near a subordinate and the team's caput manager dead, according to tribunal documents filed Wednesday.

The petition to participate a blameworthy plea, filed successful Coos County Circuit Court, shows Dowdy besides pleaded blameworthy to 3 counts of third-degree assault, 5 counts of fourth-degree assault, 1 number of driving nether the power and 1 number of driving with a suspended license.

The lawyer listed for Dowdy successful tribunal records, Jennifer Leigh Leseberg, did not instantly respond to requests seeking comment.

Dowdy was driving his pickup motortruck connected April 18 erstwhile helium crossed a halfway enactment and crashed into a autobus carrying 10 members of the Umpqua Community College softball team, authorities constabulary said.

Jami Strinz, 46, described connected the school’s website arsenic the caput softball coach, was driving the Chevrolet Express bus. Police said she was aboriginal declared dormant astatine a hospital.

Kiley Jones, 19, was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. The freshman from Nampa, Idaho, played archetypal base, according to the athletics department’s website.

The squad was traveling from a crippled successful Coos Bay, according to a connection from the school.

The different 8 occupants of the autobus received mean to superior injuries, according to police.

Dowdy besides was injured and was admitted to a hospital, authorities constabulary said. It wasn't instantly wide what benignant of injuries helium had oregon however agelong helium was successful the hospital.

Dowdy's sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 11.

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