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Benson 'filled with remorse'

In a letter written to a radio personality Gene Mueller, Mark Benson said he is "filled with remorse and filled with horror" knowing he caused a crash that claimed the lives of a woman and her two children.

The former physician was convicted of three charges of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and two counts of causing injury while driving intoxicated in the crash that claimed the lives of Jennifer Bukosky, her unborn daughter, and her 10-year-old daughter Courtney Bella. Two other children in Bukosky's vehicle were also injured in the accident.

He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 10.

While he admits in the letter that he is "100% at fault and responsible" for the crash, Benson also complains that he has been "slain in the press."

"I wish I'd have died rather than anyone else," he wrote to Mueller, who was once a patient of Benson's orthopedic practice.

Benson attempts to explain in the letter that he thought the occupation license he obtained made it legal for him to drive.

"I wish to all hell the judge would have taken my license (occupational) and my car keys and said 'walk home a--hole!' It would have served me well," Benson wrote.

He also said he had scheduled the installation of an interlock system before the accident.

Benson said the day of the car crash he took medication that had been prescribed to him and had an epidural for an MRI before the accident.

"I simply don't understand how I can be charged as an intoxicated driver by a cop who sees me 3 ½ hours post accident! When this same cop testifies under oath that he could not testify on whether I would be impaired one hour after he saw me or one hour prior," he wrote.

"The paramedics let me help them get the little boy out of the car!" Benson added in his letter.

Michael Bukosky, Jennifer's husband, said he had no comment on the letter.

"I haven't had the chance to read it yet," he said.

A telephone call to the Gibbs home was not returned by deadline.

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