A 21-year-old man has admitted causing the deaths of two high school classmates in a 2006 car crash.

Billy J. Lamug pleaded no contest to two counts of negligent homicide in the deaths of Waialua High School students Shane Bachiller and Lanakila Vierra on May 13, 2006.

The car Lamug was driving flipped over on Kaukonahua Road between Wahiawä and Waialua.

Bachiller, 18, and Vierra, 17, and two other teenagers were passengers in the car.

Lamug also pleaded no contest to a charge of negligently causing injury.

Lamug entered the pleas last week after Circuit Judge Michael Town said his inclination is to sentence the defendant to a suspended one-year jail sentence and five years of probation.

Formal sentencing will be held in February after completion of a pre-sentence investigation.

A lawsuit filed against Lamug by the parents of his victims was settled earlier this year for undisclosed terms.