Drunk driver who killed friend in 2012 smash ‘is arrested for drink driving again’
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Why was he allowed back on the road? Drunk driver who killed friend in 2012 crash ‘is arrested for DUI AGAIN just a mile from scene of fatal crash’
- Maria Guadalupe Hill was arrested on November 15 while driving on Seattle’s I-5
- She had been driving north at 28 mph in a 60 mph zone on the interstate
- The suspect was also going out of his lane and blew a .175 on a breathalyzer test.
- Hill was charged with one felony DUI count before finally being released
- In 2012, he drove his car into a truck and killed 33-year-old Valerie Cartillar.
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A Seattle woman who killed her friend who was riding in the passenger seat after she crashed her car while driving under the influence in 2012, has been arrested again for drunk driving, this time just a mile away from the scene of the fatal accident. .
Maria Guadalupe Hill remained in custody Nov. 15 after she was pulled over by Washington State Patrol while driving north on I-5, which runs from the Mexican border to the Canadian border along the west coast of the US
He had been driving 28 mph in a 60 mph zone on the interstate and had also drifted out of his lane near the Columbian Way exit in the South Seattle neighborhood.
The suspect was handcuffed after failing field sobriety tests and blowing a .175 into an alcohol detection device.
She was ultimately charged with one felony count of DUI.
Maria Guadalupe Hill was arrested Nov. 15 for driving under the influence after driving 28 mph in a 60 mph zone on I-5 in Seattle and also drifting out of her lane. She was later released, but was charged with a felony DUI and she will return to court in February.
In 2012, Hill had been convicted of vehicular manslaughter under the influence that killed her friend, Valerie Cartillar, 33, after driving the wrong way on I-5 in downtown Seattle before crashing her passenger car. front with a truck.
Cartillar died on the spot, according to Komo Newsbut the truck driver and Hill sustained only non-life-threatening, fatal injuries from the accident.
The driver’s blood alcohol content was .21, according to a 2012 police report. He confessed to Washington state police that he had been out drinking before taking the wheel. Cartillar was a passenger on the way to his home in Covington.
Hill was sentenced to five years behind bars later that same year.
Valerie Cartillar, 33, was killed in a car accident in 2012 while riding as a passenger with Hill, who was driving her vehicle head-on with a pickup truck.
‘Despite this conviction and the tragic loss of the life of his passenger, [Hill] is driving under the influence again on Interstate 5. He poses a significant risk to the safety of the community,” King County Attorney Adam Eucker said in an affidavit obtained by Komo News.
Last week, a judge granted Hill his freedom, but under certain conditions related to his drinking, driving and living under electronic surveillance at home.
The suspect’s trial date for her most recent DUI case is said to be in February 2023.
Hill was also arrested once for driving under the influence in 2003.
‘[Hill] he is unable or unwilling to control his drinking and is a serious danger to the community, having traded one addiction for another,” a King County prosecutor said of the 2012 charges.