Phillip Sullivan II, 20, caused a crash along the 5700 block of Division Highway that killed 18-year-old Andrew Stoltzfus on July 5, 2021.
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A Lititz man pled guilty and was sentenced up to eight years in prison for his role in a fatal horse and buggy crash. , 20, entered a guilty plea and was sentenced last Friday on 13 charges including a lead charge of homicide by vehicle while DUI.
Sullivan reportedly admitted to having a BAC of .103 and THC- the major psychoactive component in marijuana- in his system after he drove from a Fourth of July party and crashed into the horse and buggy driven by Stoltzfus on Division Highway, U.S. Route 322, around 2:45 a.m. Assistant District Attorney Kyle Linardo prosecuted the case and stated during the hearing that the victim was on his way home after visiting his girlfriend.
“[The Amish community] refrains that it is not their place to judge and that it is up to any person, and in this case the defendant, to take that second chance and make something of it,” Linardo said to Judge Wright on behalf of the victim’s family. Defense counsel asked for a sentence of three to eight years. The maximum sentence was 27.5 years.
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