By: Lucas Drummond
According to ABC, a woman from Merced, CA was involved in a DUI crash which left her in jail and caused her 17-year-old daughter to die. The accident happened on Thursday evening near west Sandy Mush road there was a single-vehicle rollover crash according to the California highway patrol (CHP). The CHP reported that a 1997 Toyota Camry was traveling at a high speed going east on Sandy Mush Road. For unknown reasons the driver of the Camry, Judith Nava who is 40 years old, went off the right shoulder resulting in a loss of control and the car rolled several times. Nava’s daughter who was 17 years old was in the front passenger seat, without her seatbelt on causing her to get ejected from the vehicle as it was rolling. The vehicle came to a stop but the 17 year old daughter had been caught underneath it and was pronounced dead at the scene. Nava had her 22-year-old son in the backseat but he was not injured, as well as Nava, due to them both wearing their seatbelts. Nava was arrested and charged for driving without a license, a DUI, causing great bodily injury, and manslaughter. She is booked into the Merced County Jail on a $160,360 bail.
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