Redwood City Man Convicted In Fatal DUI Crash Gets 1 Year

SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — A Redwood City Man who earlier this year pleaded no contest to charges in a fatal DUI crash was sentenced to a year in jail and four years of supervised probation, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe announced.

Ramon Hernandez, 32 had been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence for hitting and killing a woman with his vehicle on U.S. Highway 101 in San Mateo in January.

He pleaded no contest to felony drunk driving with enhancements for causing great bodily injury and having a blood-alcohol content over 0.15 percent in the Jan. 19 crash on U.S. Highway 101 in San Mateo that killed Ivania Torres, a 50-year-old South San Francisco woman.

According to the California Highway Patrol, Torres was getting out of a Toyota Yaris that a Dodge Charger had rear-ended shortly before 1:50 a.m. that day on southbound Highway 101 south of Third Avenue.

A Toyota Camry driven by Hernandez then struck her and the Dodge, and Torres was pronounced dead at the scene, CHP officials said.

Prosecutors said Hernandez was speeding in the fast lane at the time of the collision. Debris from the initial crash was strewn across multiple freeway lanes and several other vehicles had slowed or stopped, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Hernandez had been drinking in San Francisco prior to the crash and had a blood-alcohol content of at least .16 percent.

CHP officials said he and someone else who had been in the Yaris with Torres both were hospitalized after the crash.

Hernandez has already served 300 days, meaning he only has 64 days left on his sentence.

Bay City News contributed to this report.