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DUI charges against 19-year-old woman dropped in Moss Landing double fatal crash
Hernandez has remained free from the Monterey County Jail
By Ryan Masters, Santa Cruz Sentinel |
PUBLISHED: November 18, 2016 at 11:24 am | UPDATED: November 18, 2016 at 3:23 pm
SALINAS – Prosecutors have dropped charges of driving under the influence in a March double fatal crash after the driver's blood tested negative for pain medications and inconclusive for marijuana....
"The blood work that came back was negative for Vicodin and the test for marijuana was inconclusive," said Hernandez's attorney John Coniglio.
Lynnea Hernandez, 19, was driving a Lexus SUV south on Highway 1 near Molera Road on March 21 when she threw a cigarette out the window and accidentally steered into a Mazda 3 driver headed north on the highway, according to the California Highway Patrol. The driver of the Mazda, Nikolas Agustin Malliarodakis, 24, of Prunedale, was killed in the crash. Lillianne Scott, a 19-year-old from Colorado, was one of seven women in the Lexus SUV. Scott died in a hospital two days after the crash. Hernandez was severely injured... Click <here> to read the full article.
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