NEW YORK (AP) – An actor who appeared in the MTV series “Undressed” admitted in court Friday that he left the scene of a Manhattan accident in which a pedestrian was killed by his car.

Wole Parks, 23, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an accident after causing physical injury.

The accident happened Jan. 22 at Second Avenue and 14th Street. Wole’s 2001 Hyundai hit and killed Hannah Engle, 25, of San Rafael, Calif., a graduate student at New York University.

Assistant District Attorney Jill Hoexter said that although the accident was a “horrible crash that took a young woman’s life,” the misdemeanor plea was appropriate because evidence indicated that Parks did nothing wrong in the crash: he had the green light, was not speeding and had committed no traffic infractions. She added that no one smelled alcohol on his breath and he showed no signs of intoxication.

Parks, an NYU graduate, pleaded guilty in exchange for a promised sentence of one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and counseling that includes an alcoholism program.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge James Gibbons scheduled sentencing for July 13.

Police initially charged Parks with leaving the scene of an accident as a felony, driving while intoxicated, and aggravated unlicensed driving, but the first charge was reduced and the other two were dropped.

Hoexter said Parks stayed at the accident scene for a while and gave his driver’s license to police but walked away without offering his insurance information, which is a misdemeanor.

Parks’ lawyer, Stacey Richman, attributed her client’s departure to shock.

Hoexter said police reported that when they interviewed Parks five or six hours after the accident, his breath smelled of alcohol and he had watery eyes and a blood alcohol level of 0.069, which is within legal limits. She said that Parks said he drank after the accident and that it would be impossible to prove Parks was drunk when his car hit Engle.

The unlicensed driving charge was dropped, Hoexter said, because the license suspension was based on Parks’ failure to pay a fine that he had in fact paid after his July conviction for driving while impaired.

Parks played Brett in the sixth season of “Undressed” on MTV and has also appeared on MTV’s “Real World” and on “Law and Order.” He acted in an off-Broadway production of “Macbeth.”