YOUNGSTOWN -  A 62-year-old Austintown man has been sentenced to two years in prison for a hit-and-run crash into a vehicle transporting disabled people.

The sentence was handed down Wednesday to David Black, who pleaded guilty in November to operating a vehicle under the influence and failure to stop after an accident.

It was Black’s 17th DUI conviction.

Austintown police arrested Black in June after the driver of a vehicle carrying disabled passengers called police to tell them they had been rear-ended by the driver and he fled down Ohltown Road.

Police later found a damaged pickup truck in Black’s backyard.

According to the arresting officers Black, who at first denied driving the Chevy Silverado, did not have a valid driver’s license and had 16 other OVI-related incidents.

Two felony OVI convictions occurred in 2009 and 2018, along with 14 other OVI convictions dating back to 1977.