A driver suspected within the hit-and-run dying of a 14-year-old lady close to El Dorado County’s Apple Hill is being held on $300,000 bail after the decide discovered he had two DUI arrests in 4 days.
Anthony Smith, 23, of Pollock Pines, was charged with vehicular manslaughter, felony hit-and-run and driving underneath the affect after the Feb. 8 crash that killed Julianna Abballo as she walked with a buddy close to Camino, a city east of Placerville.
The California Freeway Patrol issued alerts in regards to the automobile that fled the scene, and Smith turned himself in a number of hours later.
At Monday’s listening to, based on the Mountain Democrat, a county prosecutor informed Superior Court docket Choose Mark Ralphs that Smith’s blood alcohol content material was 0.14% 4 hours after the crash and that he had additionally been arrested on Feb. 4 on suspicion of driving underneath the affect.
“That DUI occasion ought to have been contemporary in his thoughts and acted as a deterrent,” Ralphs stated earlier than asserting the bail quantity. The defendant’s subsequent court docket date is March 1.
Smith’s lawyer stated his consumer works for a tree-cutting enterprise and is the only supplier for his fiancee and their two younger youngsters.
Julianna was strolling east on the shoulder of two-lane Carson Street, going through site visitors, when she was struck by a westbound automobile that swerved off the street. The automobile continued west, towards Placerville.
The crash was in an space of houses and small vineyards close to the orchards of Apple Hill. The shoulder there may be slender, and the pace restrict is 45.
