BUTLER COUNTY — An 18-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to charges connected to a crash that killed a Butler County high school student.
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Rebecca Kumar pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of aggravated vehicular homicide and three counts of vehicular assault, according to Butler County Common Pleas Court documents.
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The charges stem from a single-vehicle crash that happened in an area of N. Verity Parkway and Hughes Street in Middletown in March.
When they got to the scene, Middletown police found a 2015 black Cadillac SUV carrying six people. It had gone off the road and overturned into a wooded area.
Prosecutors said in court that Kumar had been driving nearly three times the speed limit before the crash, reaching speeds of 103 mph in a 35 mph zone, WXIX and WLWT reported.
A crash report stated she failed to negotiate a curve.
Laith Masri, 14, of Liberty Township, died from his injuries, News Center 7 previously reported.
Masri was a freshman at Lakota West High School.
The other five people suffered injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.
Kumar faces 7.5 years in prison when she’s sentenced in January.
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