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Vernon County driver to reach homicide plea instead of going to trial
A Viroqua driver charged with causing a deadly 2017 highway crash, while reportedly under the influence of drugs, will avoid a trial and reach a plea agreement instead.
Corey Bolstad’s homicide trial in La Crosse County court had been scheduled for next week but he now has a June 27 plea hearing, when he also could be sentenced.
Police say Bolstad killed 65-year-old Rebecca Berndt of Onalaska two years ago when his commercial pumping truck crashed into Berndt’s Ford Explorer and then kept going until it ran into a house.
Bolstad allegedly had taken meth and heroin before driving.