Woman Whose Car Crashed into Hospital Killing Two Gets Probation
By Dan Keane
13:43, May 7th 2008
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The 77-year-old woman, who crashed her car into Brockton Hospital back in October, killing a doctor and a secretary, was sentenced to 18 months of probation.

Jane Berghold pleaded guilty to charges of motor homicide by negligent operation and negligent operation of a motor vehicle in Brockton District Court on Tuesday.

On October 15, her car plowed through the entrance of the radiation treatment unit, killing Dr. Mark Vasa, 58, of Norwell, the unit’s chief and 59-year-old hospital secretary Susan Plante of East Bridgewater. Two other employees, a physician and a radiation therapist, suffered non-life threatening injures.

Berghold was arriving at the hospital to consult with doctors about radiation treatment for her breast cancer. Police say she stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake.

She was sentenced to 18 months of unsupervised probation and had her driver license revoked.

A trial “just have been traumatizing for everybody involved,” said Berghold’s lawyer Kevin Reddington, according to the Boston Globe.

Berghold refused to comment after the trial. She still faces civil suits from the estates of Vasa and Plante. According to her lawyer, she would cooperate in those. “She just feels very badly and wants to help the estates in any way she can,” he added.



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