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88-Year-Old Driver Sentenced to Probation for Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Homicide of 4-Year-Old

By Altman & Altman

The 88-year-old Canton woman who accidentally ran down a young girl at a Stoughton crosswalk on Route 138 on June 13 has been ordered to serve six years? probation and pay a $200 fine for the 4-year-old? s death. Isle Horn had pleaded guilty to the charge of Massachusetts motor vehicle homicide. The Stoughton pedestrian accident happened as 4-year-old Diya Patel, her grandfather, sister, and brother were crossing the street. Horn is accused of hitting the girl with her vehicle. Diya?s body was thrown 62-feet into the air. Prosecutors contend that the elderly driver didn?t try to slow down or step on the brakes and that Diya was visible about 375 feet before Horn struck her with her vehicle. They had asked that Horn serve a minimum probation of 15 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on August 08, 2009 (boomark / email).