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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Butler, PA) A woman from Beaver County was recently sentenced to three to ten years in jail for causing a fatal crash in Butler County that killed a New Castle man in 2023. According to online court records, twenty-seven-year-old Kassandra Clyde of Franklin Township pleaded guilty to homicide by vehicle while drunk and was sentenced on Thursday in Butler County Court, with her imprisonment to start immediately. Charges including traffic charges, aggravated assault and driving under the influence were dropped in exchange for the plea. According to police, Clyde was driving on Route 422 in Prospect near the Big Butler Fairgrounds around 1:15 a.m. on May 4th, 2023, after a night of drinking, when she crossed the center line and struck a vehicle driven by sixty-five-year-old James Barge of New Castle. According to the Butler Eagle, Barge was a pressman there who was returning home from work. When Barge was killed on May 4th, 2023, he was within two weeks of retirement. According to a report from the New Castle News, Barge’s family filed a civil lawsuit against Clyde and three New Castle bars that served her that night.