A statement of correction regarding psychotropic pharmaceuticals & an accident yesterday in the Santa Cruz mountains:
SLV High grad killed by drunken driver, CHP says By Jennifer Squires Sentinel staff writer BOULDER CREEK — Lauren Berglund was making the three-quarter-mile walk home from her boyfriend's house Monday evening when a Chevy pickup slammed into her on a straight stretch of Highway 9. The driver, April Dawn Jackson, 40, kept going after hitting the 20-year-old Berglund, according to the California Highway Patrol. The car bounced off a guardrail repeatedly, hit a road sign then came to a stop against an embankment just south of Berglund's driveway, CHP officer Grant Boles said. The truck came to a stop about 175 feet from where Berglund was struck. "I don't even knew if she knew she hit her," Boles said of Jackson. Jackson was "extremely intoxicated" and arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter, according to Boles. Jackson, whose license has been suspended since 1994, has at least three previous drunken driving convictions, according to court records and the CHP. Berglund, who survived surgery in March that removed a benign brain tumor, lay injured off the side of Highway 9 for more than half an hour before Boulder Creek firefighters found her by using a heat-sensing device, In Full: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/May/16/local/stories/02local.htm
