GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Wednesday a Kent County judge sentenced the driver who admitted to driving drunk and traveling in the wrong direction on US-131 last March, killing a 21-year-old Grand Rapids student in a car crash.
Ashley Guadalupe Rodriguez-Hernandez was driving southbound in the northbound lanes of US-131 in March 2022 when she hit another car head-on, killing Willow Yon.
Yon was a third-year student at the Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University.
The initial crash resulted in two other crashes, including a tanker truck and another vehicle. The drivers of the other vehicles did not have any reported injuries.
Yon and Rodriguez-Hernandez were both taken to the hospital, where Yon died.
Court documents show that Rodriguez-Hernandez was found to have a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .114%, over the legal limit of .08%. The BAC was taken from a blood sample that was taken from her prior to her treatment at the hospital.
At the end of January, Rodriguez-Hernandez pleaded guilty to the reckless driving count and is expected back in court for her sentencing on March 8.
On Wednesday, the judge handed her a sentence of 42 months or about 3.5 years.
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