Driver in fatality heads to jail, halfway house

LISBON — A driver who killed another motorist isn’t going to prison.

Judge David Tobin of Columbiana County Common Pleas Court on Friday sentenced Corey M. Ramsey, 22, of Mountz Road, East Rochester, to 100 days in the county jail. He will then have to serve six months in the Eastern Ohio Correctional Center in Belmont County, a halfway facility, and will lose his driver’s license for 10 years. He will then be put on probation after his stay in the halfway facility.

The judge also ordered that he make restitution of $1,107 to the victim’s family.

Ramsey was driving a pickup truck on Georgetown Road in Knox Township on March 2006. He was speeding and went 3 feet left of center before his truck struck another pickup head on driven by Michael Ferguson of Salem. Ferguson died of multiple injuries. Ramsey also suffered major injuries.

Ferguson’s mother asked that Ramsey be sentenced to five years in prison. The judge said that Ramsey will do that time if he violates his probation.