A Pawling man who had been accused of driving while impaired by morphine has admitted his guilt in a fatal 2015 Patterson crash.
Christopher Osborne Jr., 45, who had been accused of driving while impaired by morphine has admitted his guilt in a fatal 2015 Patterson crash and pled guilty in Putnam County Court on Monday to aggravated vehicular homicide, a felony.
Osborne’s pickup truck slammed into a 2015 Subaru Forester on Route 22 in Patterson on April 29, 2015, and killed 63-year-old Kent resident Jean Riccobon.
Osborne was indicted by a grand jury and arrested on August 7, 2017.
Osborne had been evaluated by a drug recognition expert after the crash, and a blood test revealed morphine in his system.
Riccobon was a passenger in a 2015 Subaru Forester that her husband, Mario Riccobon, was driving.
Mario Riccobon was taken to Danbury Hospital with serious injuries, police said, but his wife died at the scene.
Osborne is free until he is sentenced on March 27.
