BRIDGTON, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Prosecutors believed Garrick Matheson learned nothing from a fatal crash that killed school mate just one-year earlier.
Matheson was driving the vehicle that crashed in Hiram on November 1, 2015. The crash the killed friends Andrew Stanley and Issac Moore.
Prosecutors claim Mattheson acted recklessly that night, reaching estimated speeds upwards of 85 miles per hour in a 35 mile per hour zone.
Officials said information came that young people would see just how fast they could speed on the South Hiram Road.
Matheson's crash came less than a year after another 17-year-old boy was killed on a similar stretch of road in a very similar fashion.
Matheson was sentenced to 30-days of confinement at the Longcreek Juvenile Center in South Portland. He will also do 600-hours of public service putting together a program for young people about the dangers of speeding and his experience.
The judge said Matheson had caught a big break with this happening 4-months before he turned 18, saying the juvenile system was much more lenient than the adult criminal justice system.
Andrew Stanley's mother said receiving that phone call from police early on the morning of November first was something every parent dreads.
"Being told that there was a serious accident and that your son did not survive is the worst thing that a parent could ever hear living every day knowing that this accident should never have happened is even worse my son is dead and I must face that reality every day," said Stanley's mother.
Matheson spoke to the court saying, "Though I know words cannot change the outcome of that night I want to tell Jamison's family and the families of the others how sorry I am for their loss and the pain and suffering they've all endured."
