Driver sentenced to 12 years in 151-mph crash that killed 6 Florida farm workers

Noah Galle was 17 years old when he crashed his BMW at 151 mph in western Palm Beach County, killing six workers who were heading home from Pero Family Farms late on a night nearly three years ago. He will spend the entirety of his 20s in prison, after pleading guilty in their deaths.

The Jan. 27, 2022, crash on State Road 7 west of Delray Beach immediately killed five of the six farm workers. Galle was sentenced Monday to just under 12-and-a-half years in state prison for six counts of vehicular homicide, followed by seven years of probation, according to court records and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Galle’s attorneys argued in a court motion that there were mitigating factors for the Wellington teen, saying he had severe health issues at the time of the crash. Several experts would have testified at trial that Galle possibly experienced a “syncope event” and lost consciousness, the motion said, when he smashed into the back of the Nissan Rogue being driven by 44-year-old Mirlaine Innocent Julceus.

But deputies said that Galle had a history of speeding at more than 100 mph, having just weeks earlier recorded a video of himself driving the same BMW at 182 mph on Interstate 95, according to a probable cause affidavit for his arrest. Someone had tipped off authorities about videos of Galle “driving at an extremely high rate of speed” that he posted on Instagram and TikTok.

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