Driver pleads guilty in Olney crash that killed 3

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A 20-year-old man admitted Thursday that he drunkenly crashed his car into a telephone pole and two trees, killing three of his friends and injuring a fourth, then fled from the scene. Kevin Coffay pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Circuit Court to three counts of vehicular manslaughter and one count of fleeing the scene of a fatal crash.

One Magruder High School senior and two recent graduates were killed in the May 15 crash. Another passenger and Coffay, also both Magruder graduates, survived.

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