A Vancouver woman was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to hit-and-run charges for striking a 72-year-old woman walking south of Columbia Heights Elementary in July and fleeing the scene.
Holly Lauralynn Shaw, 45, sat quietly next to her public defender Quincy Frazier at the Cowlitz County Jail as Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jeremiah Luther played police body camera footage of her July 11 arrest.
The video showed a disheveled Shaw, unaware she struck a pedestrian.
According to Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Patricia Fassett, she was five times over the legal limit to drive.
Shaw was handed down a concurrent sentence of eight months in county jail for felony hit-and-run; 364 days, with 363 days suspended, for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol; and 90 days for two counts of a hit-and-run misdemeanor for striking a parked car. She was ordered to pay a $990.50 fine.
The reckless driving and second DUI charge were dismissed.
Fassett asked the victim, sitting in the audience, if she wanted to make a statement before the court, but she declined.
According to the police report, the victim told officers from the Longview Police Department she was hit by a “dirty gold SUV” in the residential area near City View Boulevard and Monterey Place.
The victim called 911 30 minutes later to report the collision, after she had walked home.
Once at her place, the victim told police the suspect’s vehicle passed her on City View as she stepped off the sidewalk and began crossing the street to Monterey Place. Then, the SUV made an abrupt turn and hit her in the hip.
The victim told authorities she felt a knot in her hip; the SUV continued and did not stop to check on her.
At 9:13 a.m., Kelso police officers were sent to the 400 block of Northwest Fifth Avenue after a person reported their neighbor’s car was struck by a gold van and left the scene.
After being pulled over, Shaw provided two breath samples to the police, with one being 0.392%.
The legal limit in Washington state of a driver’s blood alcohol content is 0.08%, meaning she was 4.9% above the legal limit.
Once at the county jail, the report says Shaw told the arresting officers she didn’t remember hitting anyone and that she had been drinking vodka.
The report concludes with a note that there was vomit in her hair.
