A Hubbard man has been sentenced to three-to-four-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty earlier to charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and two counts of OVI stemming from a fatal car crash in May.

Dylan C. Vrancich, 26, of Bell Avenue, was sentenced Thursday after admitting to causing the single-car crash on Colonial Drive in Liberty Township that killed his passenger, 41-year-old Nicholas Thompson of Youngstown.

In addition to the sentence, Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Ronald Rice suspended Vrancich's driver's license for the rest of his life.

 

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Vrancich was driving a 2009 Pontiac G6 at a high rate of speed when he lost control of the vehicle, struck a utility pole, and caught fire. Thompson died at the scene.

A blood-alcohol test revealed that Vrancich’s blood alcohol content was 0.21, significantly above the legal limit of 0.08.

Vrancich has been in the county jail since his December 12 guilty plea when Judge Ronald J. Rice revoked his bond.