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| In prison, Billy Lane fixes cars |
| By floridatoday.com |
| Published: 01/04/2010 |
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Celebrity motorcycle builder Billy Lane hasn't lost his passion nor shed his "gearhead" persona while serving time in the state penitentiary. A state prison spokeswoman says Lane, serving six years for a 2006 car crash that killed another biker, has spent the last four months using his mechanical skills at the Avon Park Work Camp to fix Department of Corrections vehicles as part of the "motor pool." Lane, 39, was sentenced in August to prison after pleading no contest to one count of vehicular homicide for crashing his pickup truck head-on into 56-year-old Sebastian Inlet Park ranger Gerald Morelock's motorcycle while speeding past slow traffic in a no-pass zone on Sept. 4, 2006. "It looks like he's using his skills to help the state of Florida," said corrections spokeswoman Jo Ellyn Rackleff. In the meantime, the Melbourne Beach founder of Choppers Inc. has resolved his other legal problems surrounding the crash. Court records show a civil suit filed last year by Erin Derrick -- the passenger in Lane's truck the night of the Labor Day 2006 crash -- seeking compensation for hospital bills and suffering related to back injuries was settled through mediation. Read More. |
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It is an interesting thing to do to pass time. He must be an expert by now, because he has fixed many used honda in Ontario. I know because I read about it in an article and it was quite fascinating.