Truck Driver Sentenced to Probation for Fatal Crash

(KNSI) — An Indiana truck driver convicted of killing a woman and her unborn baby was sentenced to ten years probation in Stearns County District Court on Friday.

On December 17th, 2018, Casey Myers of Holdingford was heading to work at CentraCare and had stopped at the stop sign at County Road 4 and County Road 133, and was going through the intersection when Corey William Planck ran a stop sign, causing his semi truck to hit Myers’s SUV on the passenger side. When paramedics arrived, Myers was found unresponsive and died at the hospital. She was five months pregnant at the time. Her unborn baby, which was named Simon, did not survive.

Planck, of Star City, Indiana, told officers he was listening to his GPS through an earpiece and was on the phone with his supervisor when he missed the stop sign, slamming into Myers’s SUV. He was not hurt. In July, he was convicted in a bench trial on one count of criminal vehicular operation resulting in the death of an unborn child and one count of criminal vehicular homicide.

Planck was given a stayed sentence of almost nine years in prison, which he will not have to serve unless he violates his probation.

In July of 2019, Casey’s husband Matt Myers and her co-workers put up a memorial bench on the walking trail near the Meadows entrance at CentraCare Plaza.

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