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CUPERTINO, Calif. (KCBS) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. (KCBS/AP) _ Santa Clara County will pay $2.3 million to the parents of one of two bicyclists killed when a sheriff's deputy drove his patrol car into a group of cyclists.
KCBS’ Matt Bigler Reports
The payment settles a lawsuit by filed by the parents of Matt Peterson. The 29-year-old Peterson and 30-year-old Kristy Gough were killed in March of 2008 when the patrol car driven by Deputy James Council ran into the cyclists as they rode through Cupertino.
County officials are still negotiating with the family of Gough and with a third cyclist who was injured.
Council has been sentenced to four months of house arrest and community service after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of vehicular manslaughter.
He has also been demoted from deputy to sheriff's technician.
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