Posted at 7:07 a.m., Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Figure skating: No prison for ice dance champ in crash
Associated Press
BURGAS, Bulgaria —World ice-dancing champion Maxim Staviski received a 2 1/2-year suspended prison sentence today for a drunken driving accident that killed a man.Staviski was found guilty of crashing his car into an oncoming vehicle in August, leaving a 23-year-old man dead and an 18-year-old woman in a coma for nearly four months.
Police records showed Staviski's blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit.
Staviski lost his driving license for four years, will be on probation for five years, and was ordered to pay compensation totaling $127,000. The court rejected the woman's claim for $1.5 million in compensation.
Staviski and Albena Denkova captured their second consecutive ice-dancing title at the World Figure Skating Championships in March.
