Driver of 2014 fatal accident on Highway 59 pleads guilty in plea bargain - Gillette News Record
She wasn’t sentenced Wednesday because County Attorney Ron Wirthwein wants a pre-sentence investigation report on Steel completed, and because the families of the victims want to be present to give a statement. The crash killed Colin Schultz, 37, Charles Errington, 55, and Christopher Joubert, 40. Wirthwein recommended a one-year sentence for each of the three counts, suspended in favor of a 30-day split sentence in jail followed by one year of probation... Circuit Court Judge Terrill R. Tharp accepted Steel’s guilty pleas and said he would take the sentencing recommendation under consideration, but added that the consecutive probation periods bothered him. “I don’t like consecutive periods of probation because if there’s a violation during the first term, what does that do with the second or the third term. Steel was driving a Coach USA/Powder River Transportation bus at about 7:30 a. m. May 14, 2014, on Highway 59 when she collided with a line of cars that were stopped for construction south of Gillette. Steel immediately collided with the back of a white 2003 Chevy Impala driven by Schultz, who was killed on impact. Other bus passengers and cars behind Steel’s bus noted that the large vehicle did not slow before the crash and collided with the Impala at highway speed. Source: www.gillettenewsrecord.com
