Maya Culbreath, Kristin Young, Jessica Mejia and Gregorio Martinez are four of the victims killed in a freeway crash in Diamond Bar on Feb. 9, 2014. Culbreath is the sister of the alleged DUI driver suspected in the crash. (Credit: DMV)
2014-02-11 —KTLA is reporting that the woman charged with DUI in the deaths of six people, Olivia Carolee Culbreath, had a prior DUI arrest and her sister, whom police say she killed in this horrible Sunday morning carnage had multiple DUI convictions. Her license had been suspended but had California court officials sent her to jail, she might still be alive.
Four members of the same family were riding in the Explorer, according to the coroner’s office: Gregorio Mejia-Martinez and Leticia Ibarra, their daughter, Jessica Mejia, and Jessica’s grandmother, Ester Delgado.
Gregorio Mejia-Martinez and Ester Delgado died on scene, while Leticia Ibarra and Jessica Mejia died later at a hospital, the coroner’s office stated.
All four had apparently been ejected from the Explorer, according to a CHP statement that described the collision and information from the coroner’s office.
Culbreath was 17 when she convicted of a DUI in 2010 in San Bernardino juvenile court, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing DMV officials. She had at least two more traffic citations before her license was reinstated in December 2011, The Times reported.
Maya Culbreath also had multiple DUI convictions, and her license was suspended last year and had not been reinstated at the time of the crash, the newspaper reported.
Culbreath was arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence of alcohol causing great bodily injury or death, and of felony manslaughter, according to a news release issued by the CHP. Read more:
