A dump truck driver who struck and killed a hospital chaplain in April was sentenced to two years' probation Tuesday.

Samantha Rivers, 25, of Warrenton, Ga., pleaded guilty to making an improper turn and no contest to vehicular homicide in the second degree, said her attorney, Pete Theodocion.

Richmond County State Court Judge David D. Watkins accepted the plea deal for the probation sentence, Mr. Theodocion said.

Ms. Rivers struck and killed Bill Snyder, 67, on April 28 on Jones Street near the end of River Watch Parkway. Mr. Snyder, who was a North Augusta minister and University Hospital chaplain, was driving his mo-ped.

"She just never saw him," Mr. Theodocion said. Ms. Rivers feels terrible about what happened, he said.

Judge Watkins told Ms. Rivers that he would suspend half of her $2,000 fine if she would donate that much for a memorial for Mr. Snyder.

The accident happened about 9:40 a.m. Ms. Rivers had dropped off a load of stone for the St. Sebastian Way road project. She turned right onto Jones Street and was trying to turn left into the Circle K station when she struck Mr. Snyder, Mr. Theodocion said.

Mr. Snyder had come up beside Ms. Rivers' truck and she couldn't see him, her attorney said.

According to an earlier report in The Augusta Chronicle, Mr. Snyder was on his way to a veterans' Bible study group.