Man to be sentenced in 2008 crash that killed three in Cherry Hill

CAMDEN

— A New York state man who was found guilty of three counts of vehicular homicide for deaths in a 2008 crash will be sentenced Friday.

Sheraz Khan, of West Babylon, was also convicted of drug possession, careless driving, failure to wear a seatbelt, keeping incomplete log books and failure to have a medical card.

On Sept. 11, 2008, Khan was driving an 18-wheel tractor trailer weighing about 11.6 tons on Interstate 295 North in Cherry Hill when the rig veered across three lanes of traffic and the median to enter oncoming traffic, authorities said. The rig was traveling at about 60 mph when it hit a Volkswagen driven by Lawrence M. Wright, 66, of Keller, Texas and a refrigerator box truck operated by Juma Rajab, 44, of Philadelphia; Renee Lesenko, 44, was a passenger in the box truck.

All three were killed instantly.

Khan will be sentenced at 9 a.m. Friday.

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