Minimal Sentence For Man Guilty Of Causing 12 Car Wrecks

An Asheville man found guilty of intentionally causing 12 car wrecks was sentenced to a year in prison Thursday. The court also ordered the man, Byron Fulghum, 27, to pay $45,363.08 in restitution to insurance companies and victims. He was found guilty of six felony counts of insurance fraud, four misdemeanor counts of injury to personal property, four misdemeanor counts of assault with a deadly weapon and four misdemeanor counts of reckless driving to endanger.
Fulghum’s maximum sentence is 34 months in prison. The maximum sentence for the insurance fraud charges alone could have landed Fulghum in prison for more than eight years.