ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Saturday, April 5, 1997 TAG: 9704070089
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: MANASSAS
A man charged with causing a crash that left a child paralyzed pleaded no contest to reckless driving Friday in a case both sides called a cautionary tale about highway aggression.
Fred Hamilton Jr. and the father of a 3-year-old girl jockeyed for position and exchanged rude hand gestures in morning traffic on Interstate 95 on Nov. 20, police said. Brenna Finck was gravely injured when her father's truck flipped over. No one else was seriously hurt.
``A little girl was hurt very badly. It was never my intention to hurt her or anyone else,'' Hamilton said in a prepared statement released by his lawyer.
Prince William County General District Court Judge Lon E. Farris sentenced Hamilton, of Locust Grove, to 12 months in jail but suspended 10 months of the sentence.
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