A 45-year-old Garden Grove man was recently sentenced in the Orange County Superior Court to 6 years in state prison after pleading guilty to vehicular  manslaughter with gross negligence, driving while intoxicated and other criminal charges.      

The sentence resulted from an April 2009 incident in which the man ran down two men who were in the process of changing a tire on the shoulder of the I-5 freeway near the Harbor Boulevard off ramp in Anaheim.  The man lost control of his truck while trying to exit the freeway and struck both men, ages 23 and 21, at an estimated speed of 55 mph.

The 23-year-old victim died at the scene while his cousin, the 21-year-old victim, sustained fractures to his skull and jaw.

The driver showed obvious signs of intoxication when contacted by police and, two hours after the accident, his blood alcohol level was determined to be 0.15.