Trucker completes 8-hour driver's ed course, wiping convictions in Livermore crash that killed 3 teens

DUBLIN - An Orlando resident has completed his end of the plea bargain from a 2020 crash that killed three teens, and now the courts have fulfilled theirs by wiping his criminal record clean.

A March ruling by an Alameda County superior court judge ends the long prosecution of Frederic Ivenet, a trucker from Orlando who was originally charged with felony vehicular manslaughter on allegations of making an illegal turn and getting his truck stuck on Las Positas Road, where it was struck by an oncoming Mercedes-Benz. The three occupants of the Mercedes, Rahal Brar, 18, Shej Kumar, 16, and Ian Ericksen, 16, were all killed.

But Ivenet’s charges didn’t stick. First, a judge ruled that simply getting his truck stuck on a roadway wasn’t enough for felony vehicular manslaughter, so it was reduced to a misdemeanor case. Then last year, Alameda County prosecutors came to Ivenet with a deal: complete an eight-hour driver’s ed course and plead to a misdemeanor roadway obstruction charge for a clean record.

Ivenet accepted. On March 11, after he submitted a certificate that he’d completed something called “Cheapest Traffic School Online,” Judge Jonathan Wolff dismissed the case pursuant to the plea agreement. With no record, Ivenet has petitioned the court to seal his arrest from public view, court records show.

Ivenet was charged nearly two years after the crash, in 2022, but quickly posted bail and remained free for the duration of the case.

Brar, the driver of the Mercedes, was giving his cousin, Kumar, and their friend, Ericksen, a ride home from their job at a nearby ice cream parlor. Kumar attended Del Valle Continuation High School, and Ericksen went to Livermore High School. Brar was a recent graduate of Vineyard High School in Livermore.

The crash occurred just short of the one-year anniversary of a tragically similar crash that claimed the lives of three teenage boys on Christmas Day in nearby Pleasanton. The three were 16-year-old Dublin High School students Javier Ramirez and twin brothers Mark Anthony Urista and Michael Angelo Urista.

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This story was originally published May 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM.