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Roger Avary, screenwriter of such films “Pulp Fiction,” and co- writer of the films “Silent Hill,” and “Beowulf” has plead guilty to drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter a for a crash that killed one passenger last year.

He entered his guilty pleas Tuesday in a court in Ventura County, Ca.

In January 2008, Avary crashed his Mercedes into a telephone pole while driving late one evening in Ojai, Ca.

The alcohol induced crash injured his wife, Gretchen, and killed 34-year-old Andreas Zini, a resident of Italy who was visiting the couple. Avary has apologized for the accident.

Avery, 43, was intoxicated at the time of the crash, authorities said. He was arrested and later released on $50,000 bail.

In December, Avary originally pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Avary — born in Flin Flon, Canada, and raised in the United States — shares an Academy Award with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino for writing Tarantino's 1994 hit Pulp Fiction.

The Examiner