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Drunk Driver Gets 6 Months For Crash That Killed Police Officer

POSTED: 4:56 pm EDT March 18, 2008

DELTONA, Fla. -- A drunk driver, who hit and killed a Longwood police
officer on I-4, will go to jail for six months. The crash happened last
July after someone threw a lawn chair into the middle of the interstate in
Deltona.

The maximum sentence 20-year-old Dwayne Love could have faced was a year.
Prosecutors only charged Love with DUI and driving while his license was
suspended, but not for the death of the police officer that he hit and
killed.

In July, officer Strohsal had just crashed his own car trying to avoid a
plastic lawn chair thrown into the middle of the interstate when he got out
and was hit. Even though Love was drunk and driving without a license
because of a previous DUI, he said he couldn't see Strohsal standing in the
roadway until it was too late.

"I wasn't supposed to be driving. I'm truly sorry and I wish that the
people who put the chair there wasn't trying to play no prank. You don't
put chairs on the highway. I'm sorry," Love said in court.

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