A 21-year-old Lebanon man was sent to prison for four years after pleading guilty to vehicular assault.

Corey Pandorf, wearing a bright orange jail jumpsuit and flip flops, was shackled at his waist and legs as Judge Don Oda imposed the sentence.

“I’m very sorry for what happened and I’ve apologized to the victims,” Pandorf said prior to sentencing.

Oda then asked him what happened.

“I was driving drunk,” Pandorf said. “I shouldn’t have.”

Pandorf was originally indicted on four counts each of aggravated vehicular assault and vehicular assault but pleaded guilty to the four counts of vehicular assault.

After he was indicted Prosecutor David Fornshell said Pandorf was driving recklessly and drunk and crashed his car on Greentree Road. Fornshell said witnesses reported he was driving at a high rate of speed, passing cars and staying in the oncoming lane. He also blew through a red light at Ohio 741.

Pandorf crashed the car near the Shaker Run Golf Course and all four passengers were ejected from the car. Fornshell said all of the passengers had serious injuries and some had lengthy stays in the hospital. Oda ordered Pandorf to pay $3,014 in restitution to one victim and $356 to another. He also imposed a $1,000 fine and revoked Pandorf’s driver’s license for three years after he gets out of prison.

Oda told Pandorf he would consider an application for early judicial release after the man spends one year in prison. He cautioned him, however, to be a model prisoner.

“I am going to look favorably on a motion for judicial release… but that depends somewhat on what you do between now and then,” he said. “If you go to the institution and you don’t follow the rules, don’t come back to me ask to get out early. Go to the institution and you follow the rules and you behave yourself.”

None of the victims showed up at the sentencing, and no one spoke on Pandorf’s behalf except his attorney, Richard Wendell II.

“He has expressed to me his acceptance of responsibility for the incident,” Wendell said. “He recognizes the significance of it, the importance of it and his desire to use this as a real turning point in his life.”