FORT DODGE — A central Iowa man has been sentenced to probation for texting when his pickup truck collided with a car, killing two people. Twenty-one-year-old Colten Bills, of Dayton, was sentenced Monday in Fort Dodge. He was convicted last month of two counts of vehicular homicide in the May 2015 crash deaths of 56-year-old David Castenson, of Harcourt, and his 85-year-old mother, Velma Castenson, of Dayton.
The judge said evidence proved Bills was distracted by texting and ignored a stop sign and a sign warning the stop sign was ahead. The judge said there was no evidence Bills braked or swerved to avoid the car.