SOUTH FOR MYERS, Fla. A 75-year-old man was fined $2,000 after pleading no contest Thursday afternoon in connection with a fatal 2016 crash.
Donald Kottkamp, 75, of Cape Coral, was first issued a traffic citation after a crash on Sept. 20, 2016 near the intersection of Briarcliff Road killed FGCU student Ryan Wendler, 20, of Gainesville, authorities said.
Kottkamp also had his driver’s license was suspended for a year.
He was driving a dump truck, carrying steel for Fort Myers-based Allied Recycling, and rear-ended the Nissan Wendler was driving, pushing it into nearby bushes, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
It’s not the first time Kottkamp has been in a deadly wreck. He reached a settlement in a lawsuit stemming from his involvement in a fatal 2001 crash in Pennsylvania.