A 20-year-old man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for causing a fatal crash that killed five in Peoria in November 2022, authorities said Friday.
Bjorn Hartzell, who was 16 at the time of collision, was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee near 107th Avenue and Lone Cactus Drive in Peoria when he struck a minivan carrying a family of two adults and four juveniles who had just left a Thanksgiving get-together, according to a release from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
The two adults were pronounced dead at the scene. All four juveniles were taken two hospitals. One died shortly after arriving at the hospital, and two others later died from their injuries. One juvenile survived.
