The 27-year-old man who was drunk and high when he crashed into two troopers and a tow truck driver responding to an accident learns his fate.

Christopher Neumann had to face his victims as he was sentenced in court.

“The emotional and financial impact that Christopher Neumann left will be felt for years to come,” said Jeffery Waite, injured during crash

Jeffery Waite is one of the three people left severely injured when Christopher Neumann crashed his car back in March. 

“I wondered as a husband and wife what life would be,” his wife Sherry Waite said.

Waite was on Interstate 90 with two state troopers responding to a car crash when Neumann drove into them. Troopers Brent Karow and Shane Swartz haven’t returned to work. Waite needs constant help to run his tow service.

“His actions destroyed three lives and their family’s lives. You heard Mr. Waite talk about he’s probably never going to work the same way again. How he’s never going to be able to hold his grandchildren again,” said Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove.

Neumann pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and driving while impaired -- receiving the near maximum sentence of 2 to 6 years in state prison. 

“I knew better than to take my medication and smoke marijuana and drink alcohol and drive but that night I wasn’t thinking. I wasn’t thinking of the consequences of my actions,” Christopher Neumann said.  

 “He recognizes he made a horrendous choice. But that’s what it was. It was a choice and it was his choice,” Abelove said.  

Speaking to the court, Neumann asked for forgiveness, saying in the future, he hopes to volunteer and make sure people don’t make the same decision he did.