By Matt Unruh ~ Great Bend Post
A 25-year-old Larned man was sentenced in Pawnee County District Court last week for vehicular homicide stemming from a November 2010 accident that killed 2 people.
In a release from the Pawnee County Attorney’s Office, Larned resident 25-year-old Brett Buckley was sentenced to 12 weeks of house arrest, 24 months of probation, and 1,000 hours of community service after pleading guilty to two counts of vehicular homicide. According to the Larned Tiller and Toiler, the charges stem back from an accident on November 23rd, 2010, at the intersection of O Road and 120th Avenue in Pawnee County.
Buckley was driving a 1992 Honda Civic that failed to yield right-of-way and collided with a 2009 F-150 pickup driven by Brian Blide. Two passengers in Buckley’s vehicle, 28-year-old Matthew Hackerott and 20-year-old Miranda Gilliland were ejected from the vehicle. Hackerott died later that evening at Pawnee Valley Community Hospital, and Gilliland died four days later at Via Christi Hospital in Wichita.