SEATTLE — A Sammamish woman who plowed her SUV through her lakefront home, killing two family members, has pleaded guilty.
The Seattle Times said 69-year-old Carol Fedigan pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of vehicular homicide and other charges in the May 2014 crash.
Prosecutors and the defense are recommending that she serve more than six years in prison.
Charging documents say Fedigan had been drinking wine and had taken the prescription sleep aid Ambien before trying to move her SUV onto the driveway with her grandson seated in her lap.
She accelerated instead of braking. She rammed the SUV into the house, smashed into relatives seated at the dining table and continued into Lake Sammamish.
Her husband David Walker died at the scene. Her 41-year-old son-in-law, Sean Berry, died two days later. Her 34-year-old daughter was seriously injured. The grandson was not injured.
Talk to us
> Give us your news tips.
> Send us a letter to the editor.
> More Herald contact information.
