Scott Sikkema, who killed a Grand Valley State student after …
A man accused of causing a head-on crash that killed a college …
Scott Sikkema, 29, was driving the wrong way down I-196 on the …
One day after 22-year-old Meredith O'Brien was killed in a car …
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Wrong-way driver admits guilt in death
Crash occurred in May
Updated: Monday, 24 Aug 2009, 6:22 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 24 Aug 2009, 11:25 AM EDT
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - A man accused of causing a head-on crash that killed a college student was in court Monday and pleaded guilty to one charge of drunk driving causing death.
Scott Sikkema, 29, talked to 24 Hour News 8 after he was released from jail the day after the May crash. He said he remembered little of what happened leading up to the crash, but he did remember having four drinks and going to a friend's house.
Police say Sikkema had nearly twice the legal limit of alcohol
in his blood when he drove the wrong way on I-196 in May, hitting
Meredith O'Brien's vehicle. O'Brien died from her injuries.
She was a student at Grand Valley State University and was
driving to work when she was struck.
O'Brien's family took up one row in the courtroom, and all wore buttons with Meredith's picture on them.
Sikkema could get 15 years in prison when he's sentenced at the end of September.
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