Credit: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
A Bensalem man accused of striking and killing a man with his pickup truck and driving off was sentenced earlier this month.
John Bik, 54, was sentenced by Bucks County President Judge Theodore Fritsch to 11 months and 29 days to 23 months and 29 days in county prison, 100 hours of community service, and three years of probation.
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Last November, Bik pleaded no contest to charges of homicide by vehicle, aggravated assault by vehicle, and involuntary manslaughter related to the death of pedestrian James Ogborn, 71, at night on Friday, November 30, 2018.
Bik, according to police, was driving his pickup truck in the westbound lanes of East Lincoln Highway outside Lincoln Plaza in Middletown when he struck Ogborn and left the scene. Witnesses to the crash told investigators they saw the Ford F-150 swerve, strike Ogborn, and then leave the scene.
In court papers, police said they tracked Bik’s pickup truck using the vehicle computer system and Bik’s cell phone to trace him from a Bristol Township Fine Wine and Good Spirits store to a Lower Makefield eatery. After the being at eatery, the vehicle was in the area of the crash and traveling at more than 70 mph. The system showed the truck quickly came to a hard stop and then drove off around the time of the crash.
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Bik had an attorney call police about two hours after the crash. He later showed up at the Middletown police station and said “I’m sorry.”
U.S. Army-veteran Ogborn, a resident of Falls Township, was taken to the hospital and died days following the crash.
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“[Ogborn] had a great sense of humor and was an independent thinker who marched to his own drum … a true non-conformist. He also loved music and enjoyed attending concerts,” his family wrote in an obituary.
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