Drunk woman drove for two miles with man in windscreen

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News


5 hours ago


A former substance abuse counsellor who drove while drunk for two miles (3.3km) with a pedestrian's body embedded in her windscreen has been jailed.

Sherri Lynn Wilkins, 55, pleaded no contest to the 2012 hit-and-run murder and was sentenced to 25 years by a California judge.

Wilkins only stopped when bystanders confronted her at a traffic light about the half-naked body on her bonnet.

The victim, 31-year-old Phillip Moreno, was pronounced dead in hospital.



Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39082005

[pecosbob]

1. Only in 'mericuh.

[Solly Mack]

2. Damn

[Kilgore]

3. Why do i immediately think of Fargo season 2?

[Vilis Veritas]

6. Your not alone...

[Kilgore]

10. Wonder if she married a butcher?

[dalton99a]

4. Well, that ought to dry her out.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Do Bannon and/or Sessions drink? . . . nt

[flying_wahini]

7. same thing happened in Ft Worth years ago but she didn't find out there was a dead man on her car

until she woke up the next day. The saddest part was that he lived several hours before dying and she could have saved his life.

[link:http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/27/windshield.death/|

[7962]

11. I remember that story. Terrible. nt

[area51]

13. Was that the basis of

this movie?

[KittyWampus]

8. something not unsimilar happened here.

[canetoad]

9. I thought this was a second incident

Then saw the date of the original incident. The wheels of justice grind exceeding slow but got her in the end.

[Chemisse]

12. Is it really a hit and run if she took the victim along with her?

Well apparently it is, because that is what she pled guilty to.

Pretty cruel behavior; it's good to see she got a stiff sentence.

[King_Klonopin]

14. Haven't we all ? nt