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Driver Pleads Guilty to Murder Afer Fatal Wreck  Posted on: 7:34
pm, February 4, 2013, by  LACKAWANNA COUNTY — The driver who
caused a deadly wreck last summer admits she was drunk when she
collided with another car in Taylor last summer.  Lackawanna
County prosecutors believe this is the first time in county
history that someone has pleaded guilty to murder charges
connected to a deadly crash.  A guilty plea now makes it
official, the crash from back in July that won’t soon be wiped
from the memories of first responders and neighbors in Taylor,
is a murder scene.  Kim Smith was killed instantly in the crash,
her friend Lydia Riley died later at the hospital.  The woman
who caused the crash, 45-year-old Sherry Hubert, has admitted to
the twisted set of circumstances that lead to the crash and
plead guilty to Smith and Riley’s murder.  “She wanted to take
responsibility all along, it was just reaching an appropriate
plea that would both punish her an