(SMETHPORT, Pennsylvania) UPDATED: Following a sentencing hearing at the McKean County Courthouse on October 13, 2022, President Judge John H. Pavlock sentenced Daniel Oaks, II, of Bradford to 19 months to 56 months incarceration in state prison as well as additional terms such as mental health evaluation; restitution; no contact with victims or their families; and boot camp; etc.  Numerous witnesses provided testimony at the sentencing hearing for the Court to consider in fashioning the sentence.    Oaks had been convicted following a jury trial of Homicide by Vehicle, Involuntary Manslaughter and three counts of Aggravated Assault by Vehicle.  A trial in 2021 resulted in a hung jury on several of the counts but the jury convicted him of 5 counts of Recklessly Endangering Another Person at that time.  District Attorney Stephanie L. Vettenburg-Shaffer and Assistant District Attorney Michael Alfieri retried those counts in a 2nd jury trial in August, 2022, and the jury convicted him of the remaining counts.  

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(SMETHPORT, Pennsylvania): On August 31, 2022, following an 8 day jury trial at the McKean County Courthouse, Daniel Walter Oaks, II, was convicted of Homicide by Vehicle, Involuntary Manslaughter and three counts of Aggravated Assault by Vehicle.

The charges were the result of a motor vehicle crash that occurred in Duke Center, McKean County, on September 8, 2018.  OAKS was the driver of a Subaru WRX that collided with a Dodge Ram that had been parked in a yard on Main Street.  A passenger in the OAKS vehicle, Alyssa Hawk, died as a result of the crash and three men, who had been standing in the yard where the vehicle collided with the Dodge truck, suffered serious injuries.

Following the crash, neighbors in the area of the crash provided aid to the injured.

Numerous firemen, paramedics, EMTs, and police officers from other areas responded to assist. 

Officer Eric Neiswonger and Pennsylvania State Police Accident Reconstructionist Corporal David Kostok investigated the crash.    

McKean County District Attorney Stephanie L. Vettenburg-Shaffer and 1^st Assistant District Attorney Michael Alfieri prosecuted the case. 

Sentencing has been scheduled for October 13, 2022 at 1pm.