(Butte County, CA) – In Butte County Court, 30-year-old Elpidio ArevaloBeotello was sentenced to 14 years in state prison yesterday, for a fatal DUI collision in Oroville last August 11th. That accident resulted in the death of 61-year-old Jeffrey Brooks of Olivehurst.

Brooks was on his motorcycle with his fiance’ as a passenger, when ArevaloBeotello, driving west on Ophir Road, ran a red-light, hitting a jeep that spun into Brooks’s bike.

The jeep driver spoke at yesterday’s sentencing and said that hand signals Brooks gave him about ArevaloBeotello likely saved him from serious injury or worse.

Additionally, Brooks’s fiance’ says he threw her from the cycle just before the collision, almost certainly saving her life.