Article: Trucker Sentenced for Wood-Chipper Crash

Article: Briefs: Demitras released after posting bail
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  May 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... from the Allegheny County Jail. Bradley Demitras, 34, of Pine, posted bail at 10 percent ... failing to properly secure a 6,050-pound wood chipper to a truck owned by O'Connor ... s Hospital of Pittsburgh in Oakland. Demitras, who is charged with homicide by vehicle ...

Article: Driver surrenders in wood chipper crash
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  May 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... for equipment such as wood chippers. Inspections ... convened to investigate Demitras' boss, Jim O'Connor ... 1995 Ford dump truck Demitras was driving is registered ... truck and the orange wood chipper, including proof ... filed for the theft. Demitras is also charged with ...

Article: Guilty plea in three wood chipper deaths
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  March 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... year after a three-ton wood chipper slammed into their minivan. Bradley Demitras, 35, admitted he failed to properly secure the wood chipper to his dump truck ... below the speed limit. Demitras told investigators he ... rearview mirror to see the wood chipper careening sideways ...

Article: Driver sentenced in Richland wood chipper crash
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  May 23, 2007 ;     604 words ... ... months in jail. Bradley Demitras, 35, of Pine, failed ... truck to a three-ton wood chipper, which broke ... s all I can say." Demitras was speeding when the wood chipper broke free ... Morrisons' Honda minivan. Demitras told investigators ...

Article: Driver in wood chipper accident pleads guilty
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... year after a three-ton wood chipper slammed into their minivan. Bradley Demitras, 35, admitted failing to properly secure the wood chipper to his dump truck ... below the speed limit. Demitras told investigators he ... rearview mirror to see the wood chipper careening sideways ...

Article: Trucker Sentenced for Wood-Chipper Crash
AP Online;  May 22, 2007 ;     366 words ... ... of his triplets. The wood-chipper broke free from Bradley Demitras' truck on a busy highway ... acknowledged that the wood-chipper wasn't properly ... 2006. Prosecutors said Demitras was speeding when the wood-chipper flew into the ...

Article: Wood chipper that crashed into minivan had been stolen
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  April 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The wood chipper that smashed into ... a truck driven by Bradley Demitras, 34, of Pine, when it broke ... the Morrisons' minivan. Demitras was part of a crew of about ... are investigating whether Demitras' use of painkillers on April ...