Chris Soules, who once appeared as The Bachelor in the US version of the show, has been handed a two-year suspended sentence over his role in a fatal car crash.
In April of 2017, Soules was driving a pick-up trick in rural Aurora, Iowa when he rear-ended a tractor driven by 66-year-old Kenneth Mosher.
He left the scene of the accident before police arrived, and was arrested at his home in Arlington soon after. Mosher was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
In November of last year, the former reality star entered a conditional guilty plea to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious injury.
Prosecutors recommended a two-year suspended sentence, and he accepted this, meaning he’ll spend the next two years on probation.
He will also be fined US$625, in addition to a 35 percent surcharge and court costs.
Chris Soules appeared on Season 10 of The Bachelorette in the US in 2014, before becoming The Bachelor in Season 19, where he was pitched as a hunky farmer.
He also competed on the US version of Dancing With The Stars.
