A Greeley-area driver will serve jail time only during the summers after a deadly head-on collision near Wiggins, a sentencing decision that has left the victims’ family convinced the justice system came up short. On Thursday, the driver received a two-year county jail term tied to the September 2024 crash that killed a local couple, with the judge ordering the sentence to be broken into summer blocks rather than served all at once.
Judge orders summer-only jail
The driver pleaded guilty to careless driving resulting in death, third-degree assault, and menacing, and was sentenced to two years in county jail. The judge structured the punishment so it will be served in 90-day stretches each year from May through August until the full term is completed……