OLYMPIA — A Washington man whose doctors warned him never to drive because of his epilepsy admits that he made a mistake when he got behind the wheel last January.
KOMO-TV reported that Justice Heckart told a judge recently that he wants to be punished for the head-on Sumner crash that killed 76-year-old Helen Stolp and caused her daughter, Dee Anne Cooper, to have her leg amputated below the knee.
Investigators say Heckart was driving erratically and had been trying to pass a car on a two-lane highway. Detectives were not able to determine whether he was having one of his epileptic seizures or if the barbiturates and THC found in his system had impaired his driving ability.
The judge sentenced Heckart to 2½ years in prison.
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