Former Fed Ex driver sentenced from 3 to 7 years in fatal wreck

A South Whitehall Township man who killed a husband and wife when he lost control of a delivery truck and hit their motorcycle was sentenced to three to seven years in state prison by a Lehigh County judge.

Devon Lindeman’s sentence will run consecutively with the sentence he is already serving after pleading guilty in August to a fatal drunken driving crash in Montgomery County.

Lindeman, 24, was driving a truck for a FedEx subcontractor in June 2020 when he hit Robert and Mary O’Rourke’s motorcycle on Route 145 in North

Whitehall Township. He pleaded guilty Oct. 24 before Judge Robert Steinberg to two counts of vehicular homicide. Reckless endangerment and other charges were dropped.

Steinberg on Wednesday sentenced Lindeman to concurrent terms of three to seven years for each vehicular homicide charge. But that sentence will run consecutively with the Montgomery County sentence — 4 years and 9 months to 9 years — meaning Lindeman will serve at least 7 years and 9 months before he is eligible for release.

Dashboard video showed Lindeman was driving with the doors of the delivery truck open, not wearing a seat belt and had a beverage jug in one hand. He drank from the jug and glanced at something near the floor of the truck before veering to the right side of the road.

The video shows Lindeman struggling to regain control and falling out of the driver’s seat as the truck crosses into the opposing lane and hits the motorcycle head-on before plunging through a guardrail into a swampy ravine.

Lindeman was charged with the O’Rourkes’ deaths in December 2021, three months after he caused a deadly crash in Lower Providence Township. In that case, Lindeman was drunk and speeding when he crossed into the oncoming lane and hit a vehicle, killing driver Paul Conaway, 63, of Chester County.