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Repeat DUI Offender Pleads Guilty In Deadly Crash

WELD COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) - A repeat DUI offender has pleaded guilty in connection with a deadly crash on Thanksgiving morning.

Alex Rodriguez pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and DUI on Wednesday.

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Nash Rider (credit: Tori Hartman)

Nash Rider and Kyle Nackos were headed back from a concert early Thanksgiving morning last year. It was just after 3 a.m. when a Jeep, driven by Rodriguez, 25, of Fort Lupton, slammed into Rider's Subaru.

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Kyle Nackos (credit CBS)

Rodriguez was driving the wrong way down Interstate 25 near Highway 7. Investigators with the Colorado State Patrol said he was drunk.

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Alex Rodriguez (credit: Weld County)
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The impact of the crash crushed the Subaru and killed Nackos. It nearly killed Rider as well. Rider continues to recover at Craig Hospital.

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