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KIOWA, Colo.—Authorities say a trucker from Texas has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in a 2009 crash that killed two.
State prosecutors in Elbert County say Richard Widmier of Burleson, Texas, entered his plea in state court on Tuesday.
Authorities say Widmier was driving a tractor-trailer rig that crashed into the rear of an SUV on Interstate 70 in eastern Colorado during a snowstorm. Forty-eight-year-old Ginger Gillespie and 77-year-old Lois Kelton, both of Grand Junction, were killed.
Investigators say the SUV was traveling at about 15 mph because of conditions and Widmier was going between 56 and 63 mph.
Two other vehicles were hit, but no other serious injuries were reported.
Sentencing is Nov. 12.
