The driver of a truck which caused a Metrolink train crash on the South Coast which killed one person, and injured more than 30 others could spend up to a year in jail after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter.
The accident happened in February of 2015, in Oxnard.
Jose Sanchez-Ramirez was driving a truck and a trailer which became stuck on the train tracks near South Rice Avenue, and Fifth Street.
He later told authorities he became confused by the intersection, and was trying to turn onto Fifth Street.
Sanchez-Ramirez abandoned the stuck truck and trailer, and just over ten minutes later a Metrolink train plowed into the vehicles. The train’s engineer was fatally injured in the accident.
Sanchez-Ramirez will be sentenced July 24th.
