Maine Supreme Judicial Court upholds 30-year sentence for truck driver who caused 2016 crash that killed two [Video]

The state’s highest court has rejected an imprisoned truck driver’s appeal of the 30-year-prison sentence he received in connection with a five-vehicle crash in 2016 that killed two people in the town of Washington in Knox County.

Randall J. Weddle, 61, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with five of the years suspended, after he was found guilty in 2018 on 15 counts, including two counts of manslaughter.

Weddle’s punishment was the longest prison sentence ever imposed in Maine related to a vehicular manslaughter case.

In March 2016, Weddle was driving a tractor-trailer with a flatbed loaded with lumber when he crossed into the oncoming lane on Route 17 in Washington, causing a five-vehicle crash.

Christina Torres-York, 45, of Warren and Paul Fowles, 74, of Owls Head were killed in the crash.

Testimony at Weddle’s jury trial indicated he was drunk, speeding and fatigued, and had falsified records, at the time of the crash.

Weddle’s record before the crash included 12 convictions for operating under the …