Driver pleads guilty in death

A man who has survived three one-car crashes on the same road near Plummer, Idaho, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for an August 2009 crash.

Joseph Michael Matt Jr., 25, of Worley, was speeding and under the influence of alcohol and methamphetamine when he lost control of his vehicle and left Lovell Valley Road in Benewah County, killing William A. Davison, 22, of DeSmet.

Matt has been in two other crashes on Lovell Valley but was not driving in either.

A federal grand jury indicted Matt, a member of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, in June for the Aug. 18, 2009, crash. He pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Coeur d’Alene. He will be sentenced Feb. 23.