TROY, Kan. (AP) - A man who let his 8-year-old granddaughter take the wheel of his car prior to a fatal Doniphan County wreck in 2015 has been placed on one year of probation.
 
Dennis Meers, of St. Joseph, Missouri, was sentenced Monday after pleading no contest in December to child endangerment.

Investigators say Meers' granddaughter, Cadence Orcutt, of Troy, died in November 2015 when the car she was driving went down an embankment on a Doniphan County road west of Wathena and overturned.  Meers was a passenger. 
 
The St. Joseph News-Press reports Meers will serve 11 months in prison if he fails his probation.
 
Meers previously was sentenced to two years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for felony driving on a revoked license. In 1996 and 2001, Meers was convicted in Missouri of being a persistent offender for driving while intoxicated.