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Skipper won't serve time for boat crash

Updated: Friday, 06 Nov 2009, 7:21 PM EST
Published : Friday, 06 Nov 2009, 7:06 PM EST

    NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) - A skipper who killed another boater on Buzzards Bay will not serve any time in jail.

    Fred Bevins pleaded guilty to negligent operation of a vessel in New Bedford District Court, Thursday.

    He was given a 1 year suspended sentence and 10 years probation.

    Prosecutors say Bevins was at the helm of a power boat that hit a sailboat last July, killing David Walsh of Dartmouth.

    Bevins has said he was resetting his GPS just before the crash.

    But investigators determined that Walsh's boat had the right of way under international navigation rules.

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