
A man who drove drunk and killed another driver in Ramona, then fled the scene on foot, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in state prison.
Abel Luna Garcia, 27, was sentenced Thursday for the Nov. 25, 2023, crash that killed Andrea Ortiz, 44.
The 7:30 a.m. crash happened on state Route 78, west of Weekend Villa Road, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Ortiz was headed west when a Ford F-350 crossed into her lane of traffic and crashed head-on into her Ford Edge, sending it down an embankment. She died at the scene.
The CHP said that after the crash, the driver of the F-350 abandoned the truck at the scene and ran.
Garcia was arrested later at his Ramona home. He pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, with an allegation of fleeing the scene.
One of Ortiz’s loved ones wrote on a GoFundMe.com page posted in 2023 that the “single mom … worked hard everyday to provide” for her three daughters. “Our family,” the post said, “is going through the toughest and most devastating event of our lives.”