(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – In Yuba County Court, 22-year-old Kaitlyn Vansant was sentenced yesterday to the upper term of 10 years in prison for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, in the death of 37-year-old James Wesley Manes. The sentencing came exactly a year to the day after that fatal accident.

It was around 9:30 on the evening of March 27^th last year, Manes was riding his bicycle along George Avenue in Olivehurst and Vansant drove into him from behind. She stopped, rendered aid and called 911. A release notes that it is a two lane rural road without markings, sidewalks or shoulders and that Vansant “recognized Manes as a neighbor and was distraught.”

She had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit and had a prior DUI conviction.