Associated Press - December 8, 2009 12:34 PM ET

NEW ROADS, La. (AP) - A 53-year-old Lafayette man indicted after a deadly boating crash that killed three people last May has pleaded not guilty to three counts of vehicular homicide.

WAFB-TV reports Jerry Jordan appeared Tuesday in state district court in New Roads.

The accident happened on False River in Pointe Coupee Parish.

Twenty-year-old Christopher Austin, 21-year-old Brian Doherty and 22-year-old Sterling Forbes died when the boat they were in collided with one driven by Jordan.

Information from: WAFB-TV, http://wafb.com

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