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PROVIDENCE -- A Cranston man has been sentenced to five years at the Adult Correctional Institutions after pleading no contest to charges of driving under the influence and reckless driving following a three-car crash last year that injured five people.

Kyle B. Josephson, 41, of 35 Greenwood St. entered the plea to six felony counts in Providence County Superior Court on Monday, according to a news release issued today by Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's office. He was sentenced to 10 years, 5 of them to be served at the ACI in Cranston.

Josephson's plea admits to two counts of driving under the influence-serious bodily injury resulting and four counts of reckless driving-personal injury resulting. In exchange for the plea, the state dismissed three counts of driving under the influence-serious bodily injury resulting and one count of reckless driving-personal injury resulting.

Last Oct. 16, at about 6:30 p.m., Josephson was driving a 2005 Saturn SUV with three passengers south on Wellington Avenue in Cranston. The SUV struck a car trying to turn left onto Wellington from the Milford Street Bridge. That sent the second car, whose four occupants were not seriously injured, south into Wellington's north lane, causing Josephson's SUV to cross into the oncoming lane and crash head on with a 1998 Toyota sedan.

The 63-year-old Cranston woman driving the Toyota had multiple compound fractures in her arms and legs. Her granddaughter, 13 at the time, suffered two broken legs and a fractured jaw.

Josephson's front-seat passenger had a broken leg, one back-seat passenger had a broken leg and hip while the other back-seat passenger had a serious cut to his forehead.

Josephson's SUV was "flying" down Wellington Avenue in a 25-mph zone before the collission, the driver of the second car told the police, according to the attorney general's office. Cranston police later estimated Josephson's car was traveling at 68 mph at the time of impact.

Josephson failed field sobriety tests at the scene, according to the news release, and a state Department of Health analysis put his blood alcohol content at 0.141 percent -- the legal limit in Rhode Island is 0.08.

According to the news release, earlier the day of the car crash, Josephson and friends were seen drinking at a nearby bar

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

 Tags  Cranston DUI Josephson Providence R.I.

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