{"id":134427467,"date":"2009-04-05T20:57:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T20:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134427467"},"modified":"2009-04-05T20:57:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T20:57:47","slug":"calif-woman-gets-6-years-for-fatal-texting-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134427467","title":{"rendered":"Calif woman gets 6 years for fatal texting crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{This is interesting because so far killing cyclists while texting has not resulted in much of anything in terms of punishment for the motorists.}<br \/>\nREDDING, Calif. \u2013 A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing a woman in one of the vehicles.<br \/>\nDeborah Matis-Engle was sentenced Friday by a judge in Redding, Calif.<br \/>\nInvestigators said Deborah Matis-Engle was speeding and text messaging when she slammed into the vehicles stopped at a construction zone in August 2007.<br \/>\nShasta County prosecutor Stephanie Bridgett said the 49-year-old woman had paid several bills by cell phone in the moments before the crash.<br \/>\nShe was in the middle of one of those transactions when she struck a vehicle that burst into flames, killing 46-year-old Petra Winn.<br \/>\nDefense attorney Jeffrey Stotter said he will appeal.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090404\/ap_on_re_us\/text_crash\">https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090404\/ap_on_re_us\/text_crash<\/a>oldId.20090405205747289<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{This is interesting because so far killing cyclists while texting has not resulted in much of anything in terms of punishment for the motorists.} REDDING, Calif. \u2013 A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=134427467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calif woman gets 6 years for fatal texting crash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134427467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134427467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134427467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134427467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134427467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134427467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134427467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}