San Diego Drunk Driver Going to Stand Trial for Gross Vehicular Manslaughter

 

A San Diego Woman accused for hitting bicyclist while driving under the influence of alcohol was ruled that she will have to stand trial on charges of hit and run, DUI charges and last but not least, gross vehicular manslaughter.

On Wednesday, K. Michael Kirkman, a Vista Judge, found that there was sufficient evidence against the twenty-three year old drunken driver, Julianne Elyse Thomson to carry on to trial on January 23 after their long preliminary hearing that day. Covid-19 related employment litigation. Thomson is looking at fifteen years if she is found guilty for the death of Arthur John Jacobs, a sixty-four year old Vista resident.

On July 27 of this year, Thomson’s Ford F-150 truck collided with Jacob’s bicycle close to the intersection of El Camino Real and Cassia Street. The accident occurred while Jacobs was on his way to work at a nearby hotel when the truck hit him around 9:45 at night. According to a witness, the San Diego drunken driver ran into bushes and then drove at a rapid speed into a parking lot of an apartment complex said Lt. Paul Mendes of the Carlsbad police. Jacobs was declared dead by paramedics on the scene. According to police, the drunken driver was found by authorities across from the apartment complex where she was hiding out in bushes next to her parked Ford F-150.

According to Aimee McLeod, the prosecuting attorney said that Thomson’s blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit of 0.08, measuring about .25 percent.