{"id":8303,"date":"2011-01-25T19:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T04:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2011-01-25T19:44:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T04:14:49","slug":"fatal-collision-nets-marine-1-year-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8303","title":{"rendered":"Fatal collision nets Marine 1-year term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"storyTitle\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20110125_Fatal_collision_nets_Marine_1-year_term.html\">http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20110125_Fatal_collision_nets_Marine_1-year_term.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Fatal collision nets Marine 1-year term<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ndaranciang@staradvertiser.com\"> By Nelson Daranciang <\/a><\/p>\n<p>POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 25, 2011<\/p>\n<p>A state judge sentenced a Kaneohe Marine to one  year in jail yesterday for third-degree negligent homicide in the death  of a motorist in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Pfc. Eric Wycklendt crashed a seven-ton military troop transport vehicle head-on into a minivan on Kamehameha Highway.<\/p>\n<p>However, the judge is letting Wycklendt, 21,  remain free for the next two months to give his lawyer the opportunity  to argue for a lesser sentence.<\/p>\n<p>One year is the maximum jail term for third-degree negligent homicide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Wycklendt&#8217;s attorney, Noah Fiddler, said the  then-19-year-old infantryman was driving the troop transport vehicle to  the Kahuku Training Area from Kaneohe on Oct. 23, 2008, when he crossed  the center line and crashed into Vicki Lynn Norman&#8217;s minivan. The  57-year-old mother of six died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported seeing Wycklendt have  difficulty negotiating his vehicle on the highway, especially around  curves, either crossing the center line into the opposite lane of  traffic or driving on the shoulder of the roadway, said Brian Kim,  deputy prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He didn&#8217;t have control of the vehicle. The  vehicle was simply just too big. He didn&#8217;t have the experience. Maybe he  didn&#8217;t have the training,&#8221; Kim said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20110125_Fatal_collision_nets_Marine_1-year_term.html\">READ FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20110125_Fatal_collision_nets_Marine_1-year_term.html Fatal collision nets Marine 1-year term By Nelson Daranciang POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 25, 2011 A state judge sentenced a Kaneohe Marine to one year in jail yesterday for third-degree negligent homicide in the death of a motorist in 2008. Pfc. Eric Wycklendt crashed a seven-ton military troop transport vehicle head-on into &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fatal collision nets Marine 1-year term&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8305,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions\/8305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}