The driver of a car that killed a Carlsborg woman in one of a spate of fatal collisions on U.S. Highway 101 last year was convicted Thursday of vehicular homicide.
A Clallam County Superior Court jury deliberated in Port Angeles for about three hours Thursday morning before finding Andrew James David, 35, of Goldendale guilty in the death of 75-year-old Lorna Kuhlman.
“We felt that the guilty verdict was the right thing to do, and yet none of us felt elated because we were very sad,” said Kuhlman’s daughter, Renae Meyers of Sequim, who attended the four-day trial with other family members.
Kuhlman was killed Aug. 6 when David’s Toyota 4Runner struck her Buick Regal as she made a left turn off U.S. Highway 101 onto Mill Road, where she lived.
Twice the legal limit
David, who has four prior drunken-driving convictions, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.16 percent, twice the legal limit, at the time of the crash, authorities said.
Witnesses estimated he was driving at least 60 mph in a 45 mph zone, and prosecutors wrote in court papers that David’s attention was focused “angrily on the vehicle to his right which he was passing.”
He had been in a confrontation with another motorist that led to road rage and “a game of cat and mouse” on the highway, Prosecuting Attorney Deb Kelly said after David’s arrest.