(AP) — Authorities have filed a motor vehicle homicide charge against a truck driver who was involved in a 2011 crash that killed a Nebraska toddler.

Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly announced the misdemeanor charge Friday against 53-year-old Leamond Pierce, of New Castle, Del.

Pierce was driving a semi-truck that rear-ended a Toyota Camry in December 2011. The crash on Interstate 80 nearly Waverly killed 2 ½-year-old Aidan Curry, of Bellevue.

Curry’s mother, Jennifer Brock, says she was relieved by the decision to charge Pierce.

Pierce faces up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. He is on parole for a 1981 murder in Delaware, and is not currently in custody.