Driver In Deadly Healdsburg DUI Crash Sentenced

SONOMA COUNTY, CA -- A 35-year-old Santa Rosa man has been sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison for a conviction of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for a crash that killed an Arizona woman in 2015, Sonoma County prosecutors announced Tuesday. Pablo Salinas-Jacobo, 35, had two prior DUI convictions at the time of the crash on Nov. 8, 2015, when he was driving on Los Amigos Road in Healdsburg and his vehicle crossed double-yellow lines and hit two vehicles, according to the district attorney's office.

Lori Lynne Ryan, 53, an engineer and mother of two who was visiting Sonoma County with a loved one, was a passenger in one of the two vehicles and died from her injuries in the crash, prosecutors said.

A Sonoma County Superior Court jury convicted Salinas-Jacobo in April. He had been on probation for his most recent DUI conviction at the time of the fatal collision, admitted to drinking prior to the crash and
registered a high blood-alcohol content, prosecutors said.

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"Driving under the influence is a dangerous act that puts everyone on the road at risk," District Attorney Jill Ravitch said in a statement. "This time one selfish act ended the life of an innocent person."

By Bay City News Service

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