FLINT (AP) - A Michigan jury has acquitted a Texas truck driver of five felony counts stemming from a crash that killed a man and his young daughter, and critically hurt another.
Defense attorney Frank Manley said a jury on Wednesday found Dalibot Sakotic of Wylie, Texas, not guilty of manslaughter and reckless driving. His tractor-trailer slammed into a car on Interstate 69 in March 2018 carrying a Davison family.
Manley says "it was a tragic situation" but jurors "followed the law." The Associated Press left a message seeking comment from Genesee County prosecutors' spokesman John Potbury.
The two rear-seat passengers, 27-year-old Cody Thomas and his 3-year-old daughter, Aria Thomas, were killed. The driver was hospitalized with serious injuries.
Published: Fri, Aug 02, 2019
