Staff Report

ATHENS — A woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for a crash one year ago that killed an Ohio University student.

Twenty-seven-year-old April Hankinson of Athens apologized in court Monday as she pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide. In a plea deal with prosecutors, she also has had her driver’s license suspended for eight years and was ordered to pay more than $15,000 restitution to the family of the victim.

Police said Abishek (A’-beh-shehk) Singh (sing) was walking across a bridge on June 30, 2007, when Hankinson ran a red light, struck another car with her SUV and spun up onto the sidewalk, pushing Singh into the Hocking River.

The body of the 22-year-old graduate student from Faizabad, India, was found in the water the next day.