Woman charged with DUI does it again the next day and kills someone while going 99 mph with BAC 4 times over the limit

A Maryland pistillate has learned her destiny for driving drunk and sidesplitting a antheral 1 time aft she was charged with DUI conscionable a fewer miles away.

Lydia Hanson, 32, has been sentenced to 9 years successful prison, the Carroll County State's Attorney's Office told Law&Crime. She was convicted connected April 1 of negligent automobile manslaughter successful the decease of 78-year-old Richard Snyder.

Hanson was besides recovered blameworthy of DUI for a erstwhile incidental and received a suspended condemnation of 1 twelvemonth successful prison.

On March 16, 2025, Hanson was driving a Volkswagen southbound connected Route 97 portion Snyder drove northbound successful his Chevrolet truck, the prosecutorial bureau recounted. Multiple witnesses seemingly saw Hanson "driving erratically" and astatine speeds up to 99 mph.

Suddenly, she crossed into the northbound lane, causing aggregate vehicles to "swerve to debar being struck" by her. Hanson crashed "head-on" into Snyder's truck.

Maryland State Police troopers responded to the clang tract northbound of Maryland Route 26 astir 2 p.m. that day, they said astatine the time. Snyder was brought by an ambulance to an country hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead.

Hanson was flown by a chopper to a determination trauma center. According to the Carroll County State's Attorney's Office, she "refused a humor trial to find her humor intoxicant content."

Troopers, however, secured a hunt warrant for the test, and erstwhile they took her humor and tested it, they discovered she had a humor intoxicant contented of 0.34, much than 4 times the ineligible limit. Investigators besides determined that the velocity bounds wherever she was driving 99 mph astatine the clip of the clang was 55 mph.

"Incredibly, the suspect had besides been stopped for DUI the time anterior and wrong a fewer miles of wherever the collision occurred," prosecutors said.

The justice himself was captious of Hanson's actions.

"These are the worst facts I person seen successful immoderate of these cases," helium said. "You didn't mean to termination the victim, but you did mean the behaviour that led up to it. The time earlier you were arrested and charged, you would deliberation that would person been a wake-up telephone to you, and it wasn't."

Snyder is remembered successful his obituary arsenic having been "a lifelong car enthusiast, car assemblage and fender mechanic" who "could instrumentality isolated and rebuild an full car, but couldn't rather get the bent of a distant to crook connected his beloved car shows connected TV."

He near down a wife, who helium was joined to for 52 years.