Pa. high court to hear appeal in triple-fatal crash on I-83

The crash involved 11 vehicles and killed Zachary Lybrand, his 16-month-old daughter, Elliana, and Ethan Van Bochoven.

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(Harrisburg) — The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a Mississippi truck driver sentenced to 28.5 to 78 years in prison in an alcohol-related crash on a Pennsylvania interstate that killed three people, including a toddler.

PennLive.com reports that the high court agreed to hear the appeal by 31-year-old Jack Satterfield four months after a state Superior Court panel rejected his challenge of the term imposed by a Dauphin County judge.

Satterfield pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including three counts of homicide by vehicle while DUI, in the October 2018 crash on Interstate 83 in Lower Paxton Township. Authorities said he had consumed eight drinks earlier in the day before his rig slammed into a line of cars stopped in a construction zone.

The crash involved 11 vehicles and killed 24-year-old Zachary Lybrand of Middletown; his 16-month-old daughter, Elliana, and 22-year-old Ethan Van Bochoven, a college student from Pompton Plains, New Jersey.

The high court will weigh Satterfield’s argument that the judge improperly imposed separate consecutive prison sentences for each of the three charges of accidents involving death or personal injury. Satterfield contends that he should have received only one shorter term on all of those counts because the crash was a single incident.