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DOVER - The Rochester teenager indicted in a horrific DWI crash that seriously injured two juvenile passengers in 2014 has reached a plea deal with prosecutors that will keep him out of jail if he complies with all conditions handed down in the sentence.
Noah Campbell, 17, of 33 Summer St., was sentenced on Friday to 12 months in county jail, all suspended for two years.
He also pleaded guilty to felony reckless conduct, however, that felony will vacate if he completes a yearlong felony diversion program.
Campbell, who was also indicted on eight aggravated DWI counts, will lose his license for two years and then be required to use an interlock system that will deny car ignition if alcohol is detected.
Campbell will also have to pay restitution and a $500 fine plus submit to drug and alcohol testing and complete a substance abuse program, Assistant County Attorney Tim Sullivan said today.
Campbell, who was 16 at the time of the crash Nov. 1, 2014, was driving with four other juvenile passengers when he crashed a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am on Flagg Road.
Two of the passengers were injured so severely they were transported by ambulance to Maine Medical Center in Portland when gusty winds prevented any helicopter Medflights.
Police said the crash occurred around 11 p.m. in the area near 134 Flagg Road when Campbell lost control and struck a tree and stone wall, leaving the vehicle a heap of twisted metal.
Extrication tools were used during the rescue to remove the roof.
The four unnamed juveniles in the car suffered a myriad of serious injuries, from fractured facial bones, ribs and pelvises to a herniated stomach, diaphragmatic rupture, as well as spleen, liver and kidney lacerations.
Police blamed both speed and alcohol in the crash.
Campbell's BAC was listed in court records as ".02 or more." The legal level of BAC in adults is .08, but juveniles are prohibited from having any trace of alcohol in their system.
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