An Auburn man will serve jail time for his role in a motor vehicle accident that caused bodily injury to a passenger.

Keith E. Titus, 28, was sentenced Thursday in Cayuga County Court to six months in jail and 4.5 years of probation. Titus, of 33 Pulaski St., pleaded guilty Dec. 6, 2007, to felony charges of vehicular assault, driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Titus admitted Dec. 6 that he drove a vehicle owned by his employer into a tree on South Lewis Street Aug. 8, 2007, causing serious injury to a passenger, after he consumed several alcoholic drinks. Titus also admitted that he did not have a driver's license at the time of the incident due to a misdemeanor DWI offense from August 2000.

Titus and his three passengers were all injured in the accident. He was treated at University Hospital, in Syracuse, after the incident, but left through a side door when police arrived to charge him. The Auburn Police Department arrested him Aug. 25.

Titus will have to pay $320 in fees, and his driver's license will be revoked for a year. Judge Thomas Leone also included as part of Titus' probation the condition that he passes the examination for a high school General Equivalency Diploma within a year.