ST. PAUL — A judge has sentenced a St. Paul man to five years in prison for a crash that killed one teenager and injured another last summer.

Judge John Van de North sentenced 51-year-old Carlos Viveros-Colorado on Monday.

A Ramsey County prosecutor acknowledged that Viveros-Colorado is not a villain, but said he still deserved to spend years in prison.

Viveros-Colorado lost control of his SUV and hit two students outside Harding High School students on July 5. The crash killed 16-year-old Clarisse Grime and injured her boyfriend, 17-year-old Eduardo Vasquez Torres.

Grime’s mother said she would never see her daughter go to college or share another holiday with her.

Viveros-Colorado claimed he had numbness in his leg and accidentally accelerated just before hitting the couple.