Forty-five-year old MBM Customized Foodservice Distribution truck driver James A. Mills Jr. has pleaded not-gulity to the unclassified misdemeanor charge of reckless driving for a crash that killed 6 people.
“He was also cited with traffic infractions for following too closely, failure to reduce speed for a hazard and failure to obey a flag person,” Watertown Daily Times reported.
Last summer, Mills slammed his truck into a line of cars and trucks that were stopped because of a paving project on rural Route 11 in Jefferson County, New York.
The crash caused an SUV to erupt into flames, killing Laurie Dana, 42, her mother-in-law Janet Dana, 69, her daughters, Caitlyn, 14, and Lauryn, 11, and her daughter’s friend Shannon Planty, 14,
Another SUV, driven 59-year-old Maryann Gregory, was struck causing the SUV to overturn, killing Gregory.
In addition, a state transportation department employee was also injured when his truck erupted into flames.
Mill’s truck also struck two other trucks. Â The other drivers were not injured.
Mills is scheduled to reappear in court on September 26, 2013.
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