ALBANY — The Watervliet man convicted of assault last year in the horrific dirt bike crash that nearly killed a University at Albany student was sentenced to prison Tuesday morning after his victim described how the injuries he inflicted in the hit-and-run crash deprived her of possibilities in life.
Austin Breyette was ordered to serve a 7⅓-to-12-year sentence by state Supreme Court Justice William Little.
The jury convicted Breyette, 27, of second-degree assault, the top charge he faced, along with other offenses, on Oct. 16, finding the April 26, 2024, crash on Albany’s Hudson Avenue was not simply an unavoidable accident. He was also convicted of leaving the scene of a personal injury crash and evidence tampering…