{"id":146994893,"date":"2009-08-29T07:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T07:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=146994893"},"modified":"2009-08-29T07:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T07:54:53","slug":"driver-gets-3-years-in-prison-in-vermont-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=146994893","title":{"rendered":"Driver gets 3 years in prison in Vermont accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BURLINGTON\u2014 A driver has been sentenced to at least three years in prison for a hit-and-run accident that left a Vermont college student critically injured.<br \/>\nTwenty-three-year-old Adam Desjardin of Vergennes pleaded guilty to pulling in front of a bicyclist in Burlington last fall, and taking off. Twenty-one-year-old Rose Long of Sutton, a member of the University of Vermont cycling team, suffered massive facial injuries that required $500,000 in reconstructive surgery so far.<br \/>\nOn Friday, she told Desjardin in court that his action changed her life forever.<br \/>\nWCAX reports Desjardin asked to serve a reduced term in the state work camp, but that was rejected by Judge Patricia Zimmerman.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20090828\/NEWS02\/90828015\">https:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20090828\/NEWS02\/90828015<\/a>oldId.20090829075453319<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURLINGTON\u2014 A driver has been sentenced to at least three years in prison for a hit-and-run accident that left a Vermont college student critically injured. Twenty-three-year-old Adam Desjardin of Vergennes pleaded guilty to pulling in front of a bicyclist in Burlington last fall, and taking off. Twenty-one-year-old Rose Long of Sutton, a member of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=146994893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Driver gets 3 years in prison in Vermont accident&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146994893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146994893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146994893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146994893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146994893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146994893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146994893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}