A 22-year-old driver has been given a year of probation for the death of a friend who’d fallen from the back of a truck in southeast Nebraska.

Cody Barnes had pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular homicide. Barnes, of Smithfield, was sentenced on Tuesday.

Authorities say 20-year-old Cody Fanning and some other friends were riding in the truck bed in April in Crete when Barnes turned. Fanning fell out and struck his head on the street. He died at a hospital.

The accident occurred near Doane College, where Barnes and Fanning were students.

Saline County Attorney Tad Eickman says Barnes had stopped the truck before the accident and told Fanning to sit down. But Fanning was standing just before he fell.