Man sentenced in Pa. boat crash that killed girl

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) — A man will spend five to 11 years in prison for what authorities say was a drunken boating crash that killed a 12-year-old girl.

A Clinton County judge sentenced 52-year-old John Englert II of Mill Hall on Thursday, just over a year after the fatal accident.

Prosecutors say Englert’s blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit for driving when his boat collided with another on the Susquehanna River in Lock Haven.

Bellefonte Middle School student Valerie Heidt of Howard died in the crash.

Englert pleaded no contest earlier this month to homicide by watercraft while under the influence.