A Northeast Philadelphia tractor-trailer owner has been ordered to spend 11 to 23 months in prison for a deadly crash on the Schuylkill Expressway.
Victor Kalinitchii was one of three men sentenced Monday in the January 2009 crash that killed 49-year-old David Schreffler of Fort Washington, Pa.
Kalinitchii, 41, was driving the semi loaded with broccoli around the Conshohocken Curve when the truck careened out of control and into Schreffler's Infiniti.
Prosecutors claimed the brakes on the tractor-trailer had become so bad that Kalinitchii was forced to use the emergency brake for regular driving.
Kalinitchii pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and other charges after the brakes on his semi failed, causing the crash.
The driver and the owner of the owner of the garage that issued the inspection sticker also pleaded guilty earlier to homicide by vehicle counts.
Garage owner Joseph Jadczak, of Milton, Del., was sentenced to three to 23 months. Driver Valerijs Belovs was sentenced to time served, amounting to three months, and was released Monday.
