Today 20-year-old Zachary Strnad was sentenced to 10 years in prison for vehicular homicide, after hitting and killing cyclist Tom Flanagan while driving drunk last year. According to Katie Macarelli, who attended the trial, there was a good turnout of community cyclists in the courtroom, and, “The judge gave a very heartfelt, just decision.”
Megan Hottman, the Cyclist Lawyer, said, “Judge Enquist is a good judge. I think that sentence sounds appropriate.”
From Denver Post
A 20-year-old man will face the maximum sentence for killing a Golden bicyclist while driving drunk on Lookout Mountain, according to a news release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s office.
Zachary Strnad was sentenced to 10 years in prison for vehicular homicide Friday.
In February, he accepted a plea agreement in Jefferson County District Court. He pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide DUI, a felony, and the misdemeanor count of driving while under the influence, according to state records. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed three additional charges.
Strnad’s blood-alcohol content was two and a half times the legal limit when he hit 38-year-old Thomas Flanagan in August 2015. Flanagan was riding his bicycle east on Lookout Mountain Road when Strnad hit him from the opposite direction.
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