ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE
Date: September 4, 2015
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver was sentenced today to six years and four months in state prison for killing a woman by crashing into her motorcycle after making an unsafe turn into an intersection. Steven Todd Newcomer, 47, Santa Ana, pleaded guilty June 22, 2015, to one felony count each of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated without gross negligence and hit and run causing death.
At approximately 8:40 p.m. on April 12, 2012, 32-year-old Kimberly Krause was riding her motorcycle eastbound on Chapman Avenue approaching the intersection at Pioneer Lane in Garden Grove. Newcomer was driving under the influence of alcohol traveling westbound on Chapman Avenue toward the same intersection. Continue reading
