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Article: 30-month sentence in Karsch crash.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2004
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Byline: Christy Gutowski Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer
Growing up in war-torn Germany, Sebastian Karsch often gathered metal scraps for cash and ate tree bark to survive.
Those humble habits stayed with the eccentric St. Charles man, killed on a bustling street while riding a bicycle and hauling a trailer overloaded with discarded goods he had collected.
A judge said Wednesday the 70-year-old man's death could have been avoided if only a driver who struck Karsch's bicycle had chosen to remain sober that evening.
Matthew Wise was sentenced to 30 months in prison on aggravated DUI charges for the Nov. 11, 2003, fatal crash near West ...