LOCKPORT, N.Y. — A Lockport man was sentenced to time in prison for vehicular manslaughter.
Joshua Kalenda, 30, pleaded guilty to second-degree vehicular manslaughter in July after an investigation of a crash on Campbell Boulevard in the Town of Pendleton that occurred on Nov. 20, 2020.
Kalenda received the maximum term of state prison between two and one-third and seven years.
Kalenda was high on marijuana and opiates when he drove his vehicle across the center line and crashed head-on into a car driven by Melissa Maras of Williamsville, according to a New York State Police investigation.
Maras, who was a Registered Nurse, was killed in the crash.