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BOULDER — A woman who struck and killed a pedestrian with her car on the side of a highway in Lafayette has been sentenced to 16 years of probation.
Sixty-three-year-old Mary Jo Thomas was also sentenced Friday to 200 hours of community service, ordered to pay nearly $13,000 in restitution and ordered not to drive again. She pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in the death of 57-year-old John Breaux.
Thomas veered off the side of the highway Jan. 30 and hit Breaux as he picked up trash along the road.
The Louisville man was known in eastern Boulder County for riding around on a bicycle and picking up garbage. Lafayette leaders voted to name a park after him and are planning a permanent memorial.
