An Albrightsville man entered guilty pleas to three counts of accidents involving death of serious injury on Monday in Carbon County court.

Joseph P. Bassetti Jr., 37, entered his pleas before Judge Steven R. Serfass for an incident on April 19, 2020, filed by state police at Fern Ridge.

Bassetti was involved in a crash along Buck Hill Road in Penn Forest Township in which three passengers with him sustained serious injuries. Two of the passengers were juveniles.

Bassetti is currently an inmate in the county prison and entered his pleas via video conference from the jail.

Troopers responded to the scene and found the injured people but not Bassetti, who fled the scene but was later located.

He was originally charged with 17 counts but had 14 dropped in a plea deal with the district attorney’s office.

He also pleaded to a count of driving under the influence of a controlled substance for an incident on Nov. 15, 2019, filed by state police at Fern Ridge. In that case the DA’s office dropped two drug counts in a plea deal.

On the DUI charge, Serfass sentenced Bassetti to serve 72 hours to six months in jail, pay a fine of $1,000 and one-year license suspension. On the accident counts, he was sentenced to time-served (126 days) to one day less 24 months.

He was also ordered to render a total of 125 hours of community service, supply a DNA sample, zero tolerance imposed for drug or alcohol use, pay court costs of about $1,000 and pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole. The jail terms run concurrently.