White River Junction — A race car driver from Vershire who police said was drunk, speeding and “drifting” his pickup truck around a corner when he crashed in Woodstock in July pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges in connection with the incident that badly injured him and a passenger.

Timothy Hodge, 29, will serve a 60-day jail sentence on weekends beginning on Jan. 27.

In Windsor Superior Court on Tuesday, Hodge pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence, a charge that was downgraded from a felony-level DUI as part of a plea agreement.

He also pleaded guilty to a felony-level charge of operating a vehicle in a grossly negligent manner that resulted in serious bodily injury.

The court agreed to defer sentencing on that charge for four years.

According to a police affidavit, officers responded to Carlton Hill Road in Woodstock in the early morning hours of July 16 for a reported motor vehicle crash.

Police found three men outside of the pickup truck, and discovered that two of them had suffered serious injuries in the single-vehicle crash.

Hodge broke his neck in the crash, while one of his passengers suffered skull, spinal and other fractures. A third passenger suffered “non-incapacitating injuries,” according to the affidavit.

A crash reconstruction team analyzed the scene and the truck’s event data recorder, and were able to piece together that Hodge was “intentionally drifting” his pickup truck at the time of the crash, the affidavit states.

The affidavit called Hodge an “experienced and sponsored race car driver.”

Toxicology tests showed Hodge had a blood alcohol content of .161 about two hours after the crash, according to the affidavit.

Police said he was going between 51 and 61 mph in a 35 mph zone at the time of the crash.

He will serve his sentence at Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, Vt.