PORT ANGELES — A status hearing for a Port Angeles woman charged with vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol and witness tampering has been rescheduled.
The hearing for Amber Steim was originally set for 1 p.m. today. It now is set for 1 p.m. Tuesday.
Steim, 24, of Port Angeles has pleaded not guilty to both charges, filed in connection with a March 6 crash on state Highway 112 between Joyce and Port Angeles.
She is free on $100,000 bond.
She is accused of being drunk when the pickup truck she was driving crossed the center line and struck another pickup truck head-on.
The driver of the other vehicle, Ellen J. DeBondt, 44, a nurse with Olympic Medical Center’s home health agency, died at the scene.
Steim had minor injuries and was treated at Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles.
Steim’s passenger, Nicole Boucher, also had minor injuries and was driven from the scene by a friend or family.
If Steim is convicted of the vehicular homicide charge, she faces a sentence between 31 and 41 months in prison and a $50,000 fine.
The crime of vehicular homicide carries a sentence of up to life in prison, but because Steim has a low-offender score, the sentence limit is 41 months, said Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John Troberg.
The witness-tampering charge — she is accused of contacting Boucher to fabricate an excuse involving alcohol — carries a sentence of up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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