Man guilty in fatal hit-and-run can’t drive for 6 years

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) – An 84-year-old northeastern Indiana man who pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident won’t spend any time behind bars but also won’t drive for six years.

Under terms of a plea agreement, an Allen County judge sentenced Howard Lininger of New Haven to six years of probation and stripped him of driving privileges during that period.

Lininger pleaded guilty to failure to stop after an accident resulting in injury or death. Twenty-five-year-old Haley Nancarrow of Fort Wayne died after being struck at a Fort Wayne intersection the night of November 18.

Lininger chose not to make a statement during Monday’s hearing.

Nancarrow’s mother, Jennifer Dawkins, says she would have like to have heard an apology from Lininger.