Image via WikipediaPOMONA – A 44-year-old man who pleaded no contest last month to a
drunk-driving fatality on the
San Bernardino Freeway was sentenced today to state prison, the
District Attorney’s Office announced. Pomona Superior Court Judge
Jack Hunt sentenced Thomas Earl Vanauken of
Anaheim to five years in state prison. Vanauken pleaded no contest on Nov. 2 to gross
vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. The defendant additionally admitted allegations of excessive speed and that he caused proximate
bodily injury to a surviving victim. The charges stemmed from a collision on Dec. 20, 2009, during which Vanauken
rear-ended victim Edelmira Guardado’s car while driving at a high
rate of speed. Guardado, who was accompanied by two passengers, died due to extensive head trauma, prosecutors said. One of her two passengers suffered lacerations. The other was uninjured. The collision took place at 2:40 a.m. in
El Monte in a portion of the freeway where traffic was slowing due to construction work.
Image via WikipediaPOMONA – A 44-year-old man who pleaded no contest last month to a drunk-driving fatality on the San Bernardino Freeway was sentenced today to state prison, the District Attorney’s Office announced. Pomona Superior Court Judge Jack Hunt sentenced Thomas Earl Vanauken of Anaheim to five years in state prison. Vanauken pleaded no contest on Nov. 2 to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. The defendant additionally admitted allegations of excessive speed and that he caused proximate bodily injury to a surviving victim. The charges stemmed from a collision on Dec. 20, 2009, during which Vanauken rear-ended victim Edelmira Guardado’s car while driving at a high rate of speed. Guardado, who was accompanied by two passengers, died due to extensive head trauma, prosecutors said. One of her two passengers suffered lacerations. The other was uninjured. The collision took place at 2:40 a.m. in El Monte in a portion of the freeway where traffic was slowing due to construction work.
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