Car Carrier Driver Sentenced For Fatal I-195 Crash

(East Providence, RI)--A Pennsylvania man is being sentenced for a deadly crash in Rhode Island.WPRI-TV reports Ilkham Akhmedov was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison after pleading no contest in December to charges of driving to endanger, death resulting.Akhmedov was driving a car carrier in East Providence on I-195 in October of 2017 when he rear-ended a van, crushing it between the vehicle he was operating and a tractor-trailer, killing two people.Prosecutors said he falsified his driving logs and was operating on only a few hours of sleep before the crash.


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