A Boalsburg man pleaded guilty this morning to homicide by vehicle related to an accident that resulted in the death of a Penn State mechanical engineering professor in March 2006.

The attorneys involved in Thomas B. Fry's case negotiated a plea agreement, which will require him to serve nine months of house arrest and five years probation.

Fry, 51, will be formally sentenced at 9 a.m. May 22 when the judge will take into account all aspects of the case, the Centre County Probation and Parole Department's recommendations and letters sent to the county by family and supporters of the victim, Bohdan Kulakowski, 63.

Kulakowski was biking along Boalsburg Road when he was struck and killed by Fry's vehicle on March 22, 2006, according to court documents. Fry has a degenerative eye disease and is considered legally blind, police said.

Fry also pleaded guilty to three other counts of reckless driving, careless driving and disregard for traffic laws.