Maryland DUI crash kills 78-year-old man, driver sentenced to 9 years

A high-speed, alcohol-fueled crash on a Carroll County highway ended in a fatal head-on collision and a prison sentence for the driver, prosecutors said.

WESTMINSTER, MD – A Maryland woman has been sentenced to nine years in prison after prosecutors say she drove drunk at nearly twice the speed limit and caused a head-on crash that killed a 78-year-old man, just one day after she had been charged with DUI nearby.

Lydia Hanson, 32, was convicted April 1 of negligent a...