Brandon Man Who Killed Minnesota Cyclist Warns of Distracted Driving

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A South Dakota man who killed a 33-year-old bicyclist on a road in southwestern Minnesota last summer is warning others of the dangers of distracted driving.

Twenty-seven-year-old Christopher Weber of Brandon, South Dakota, pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide for the crash that killed Andrea Boeve on June 30, 2014. Weber just finished a six-month jail sentence and will serve three more months next year and three more in 2017.

Minnesota Public Radio News reports Weber came to St. Paul Monday as part of the Minnesota State Patrol's campaign against distracted driving.

Weber said he had been calling his bank to make a loan payment and only looked at his phone for a split second. He said he didn't see the woman riding her bike alongside the highway, pulling her two daughters in a bike trailer.

Both girls survived.

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