In Southern California, the Orange County District Attorney's Office has announced that it will charge 31-year-old Fullerton resident Lynette Ann Hunt for one count of driving under the influence and/or causing bodily injury, two counts of vehicular manslaughter, and one count of driving with a blood alcohol level of more than the .08% legal limit. If convicted, she could face up to 13 years in state prison. Her arraignment is scheduled for tomorrow.
Hunt is accused of driving drunk on July 11, 2008. She was leaving a Santa Ana topless bar with two friends, Fullerton resident Vanessa Herrada and Fontana resident Maria Zamarripa, early in the evening when, after reportedly weaving in and out of lanes on the 91 freeway, she suddenly sped up the vehicle she was driving, drove across several lanes, and overturned her car down a highway embankment.
Herrada, 27, suffered a serious traumatic brain injury and officials pronounced her dead at the Santa Ana, California motor vehicle crash site. Zamarripa, 30, who along with Hunt was thrown from the 1993 Honda when the car flipped over, was transported to Orange where she was later pronounced dead of internal injuries at UCI Medical Center.
Hunt broker her ribs and clavicle in the car crash. Her arraignment is on Friday. According to police, Hunt's blood alcohol level two hours after the catastrophic Orange County, California drunk driving car crash was .15%, which was nearly twice the .08% legal limit.
Drunk Driving
According to the NHTSA, 12,998 died in alcohol-impaired driving accidents in 2007. Drunk driving affects one's ability to drive properly and places the lives of the drunken driver and others at risk. Drunk driving is negligent driving and can be grounds for an Orange County, California car accident claim or wrongful death lawsuit if anyone is injured or killed.
D.A. to charge woman with killing 2, driving drunk from bar, OC Register.com, March 19, 2009
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