The accused driver in a fatal hit-and-run accident involving a moped rider pleaded no contest Tuesday in state court to negligent homicide and fleeing the scene of the crash.

The accident occurred near Ala Moana Center in 2017.

Jerry T. Putnam, 48, of Salt Lake faces maximum 10-year prison terms for each charge at sentencing in June. He remains free until then on $20,000 bail. Putnam has asked Circuit Judge Catherine Remigio to defer his no-contest pleas to avoid conviction.

The state says Putnam was speeding just after midnight May 27, 2017, when he turned left onto Atkinson Drive to beat the light and crashed into a moped traveling on Kapiolani Boulevard in the opposite direction.

Honolulu police say moped operator Paul Andrews, 27, was thrown from the moped. A city ambulance took Andrews to The Queen’s Medical Center in critical condition where he died two days later.

The state says Putnam stopped briefly to check the damage to his car and then drove off. Police located Putnam and had him submit to a blood draw, which showed a 0.12 blood alcohol concentration. The legal threshold for drunken driving is 0.08 BAC.