Hit and Run Suspect Convicted
A man charged in a hit and run accident that killed one and seriously injured another was convicted Thursday morning in Huntington Beach.
The man, 32-year-old Jason Michael Roberts, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of hit and run with injury, and faces up four years and eight months in state prison, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, for the damages he caused in a fatal accident on July 22, 2011.
The accident unfolded as four pedestrians were making their way across Brookhurst Street and Atlanta Avenue in Huntington Beach when Roberts smashed through the group, hitting two.
The group was reportedly departing a birthday celebration at the nearby Out of Bounds Bar when they were collided into. Not a great way to end a birthday party.
A woman, 24-year-old Oriana Millan, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, and another man was taken to a nearby hospital for serious injuries to the skull and wrist.
Roberts, who was driving in a 1993 Toyota Camry, then attempted to flee the scene of the accident, driving 12 miles to Laguna Beach before his vehicle finally overheated, giving into the injuries sustained in the crash.
In his initial questioning with police at the scene of his broken down car, Roberts claimed to have hit an animal while driving through Pacific Coast Highway, but officers said that the damage was obviously caused by a much larger object, most likely a person, if not a moose, though you don’t see many of those in California in May.
Roberts is scheduled back in court on August 3rd to learn his final fate.
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