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Sentencing In Fatal December Crash

Six years in prison is the sentence handed down Thursday to a South Columbus man convicted of causing a fatal drunken driving accident.35-year-old Matthew Atkinson crossed the center line on Watkins Road last December, colliding head on with a vehicle driven by 24-year-old victim Chad Fields. Atkinson will also serve three years of court supervised release and will lose his driver's license for life.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.