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A Logan teenager has been sentenced to nine months in jail for causing an August 2010 crash on a rural Box Elder County road that killed a 15-year-old girl.
Hayden Taylor Hill, 19, was driving with four teenage passengers when, according to court documents, he "swerved into oncoming traffic, took both of his hands off of the steering wheel to dance to music playing in the vehicle, and ran a stop sign."
At that intersection on State Road 13 in Elwood, a pickup truck broadsided Hill's car. Madison Kimball, a 15-year-old girl from the Cache County town of Providence, was thrown from Hill's car and died.
At sentencing Wednesday in 1st District Court, a passenger in the car said Hill was "playing chicken," according to The Herald Journal newspaper of Logan.
"You don't do that, you don't do that, you don't do that!" said McKenzie Christoffersen, a Hyde Park teen who spent three weeks in a hospital following the crash.
The newspaper quoted Hill apologizing to his victims.
"She didn't deserve this; I'm just so sorry," Hill said. "I didn't know I was scaring [the girls]."
Hill pleaded guilty earlier this year to negligent homicide, a class A misdemeanor, in Kimball's death.