TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Former Olympic diver Bruce Kimball, convicted in Tampa, Fla., of vehicular homicide in 1988, has become eligible for an Illinois drivers license.
He learned he could drive again this month although a Florida judge said he should never drive again, the St. Petersburg Times reported Wednesday.
The ruling reversed an earlier decision by the Illinois secretary of state.
Kimball, now a teacher in suburban Chicago, did not comment and it was not known if he would drive again after 15 years.
Kimball pleaded guilty in 1989 to driving drunk when he plowed into a crowd of teenagers on a dark Hillsborough County, Fla., road, killing two of them.
He was sentenced by the late Circuit Judge Harry Lee Coe to 17 years in prison. He received time off for good behavior and was released after serving less than five years.
He is married and the father of two children.
Kimball won a silver medal for platform diving in the 1988 Olympics after coming back from a serious injury.
