Man guilty of reckless driving in collision
By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI - jduchnowski@nwherald.com
WOODSTOCK – A 20-year-old Spring Grove man could be sentenced to probation or one to three years in prison after a McHenry County judge convicted him of aggravated reckless driving.
Judge Sharon Prather found Adam T. Grazier guilty of the felony Friday afternoon after a two-day bench trial.
Witnesses testified that Grazier was driving 70 to 80 mph south on Kemman Road, blew through a stop sign at Thayer Road, and hit a vehicle in the intersection south of Hebron. Both Grazier and the other vehicle’s driver, Richard Hangleitner of Harvard, were airlifted to a Rockford hospital.
Grazier was 17 at the time of the September 2006 crash. His sentencing hearing was set for Dec. 11.
After his conviction, Grazier accepted a plea bargain in an unrelated case stemming from a June 2008 incident.
In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors reduced a charge of unlawful use of a credit card to misdemeanor attempted unlawful use of a credit card. He was sentenced to a year of conditional discharge and a $250 fine and ordered to pay $227 in restitution.
