One night a year in solitary for fatal DUI driver - The News Journal
A Newark man whose wrong-way driving killed a 58-year-old Maryland woman last June was sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by a year of behind-bars substance abuse treatment. Cordrey, 22, pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree vehicular homicide and driving under the influence in the June 1, 2014 crash that killed Nancy Nelson, 58, of Denton, Md. His sentence, imposed by Superior Court Judge M. Jane Brady, carries an... Delaware State Police have said Cordrey was driving a Ford F-250 pickup truck the wrong direction on U. S. 13, north of Camp Road near Bridgeville, at about 3 a. m. With his truck pointed south in the northbound lanes, Cordrey struck Nelson's... Cordrey was not charged with any offenses stemming from the crash until February, when a grand jury indicted him on charges of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and DUI. After completing it, Kanefsky said, Cordrey will spend up to a year in the Crest program, a detention-based drug treatment course that can include work release followed by supervised probation for two years. Source: www.delawareonline.com
