JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 25-year-old woman was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to DUI manslaughter in a fatal wrong-way crash on Interstate 295 near Beach Boulevard.
Tamia Flores was driving a silver Hyundai sedan the wrong way in the southbound lanes of I-295 on March 13, 2021, around 3:11 a.m., when she crashed head-on with a BMW sedan, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
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The State Attorney’s Office said Flores was driving impaired when the crash happened.
The impact spun the BMW into the guardrail and then it ricocheted into a semi-truck, sending both the BMW and the semi careening down an embankment, FHP said. The semi, hauling a tanker, overturned and crashed into a tree.
Flores’ Hyundai ended up on top of the guardrail.
Montrel German, who was driving the BMW, was not wearing a seat belt and died from his injuries, troopers said.
Flores and the woman driving the semi-truck suffered serious injuries.