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cbs2.com said:Girl, 17, Denies Charges In Pursuit, Deadly Crash
LOS ANGELES (CBS) ― A teenage girl accused of racing another driver and then leading San Gabriel police on a high-speed chase that ended with a 19-year-old woman's death denied vehicular manslaughter and other charges Wednesday.
The 17-year-old Rosemead girl was released, over the prosecution's objection, to her parents' custody and ordered not to drive, according to Shiara Davila of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
The teen, whose name is not being released because of her age, had been detained at Eastlake Juvenile Hall.
She is accused of racing a white Ford Focus against another driver in a black Scion, then accelerating to about 80 mph as a San Gabriel police officer tried to stop the two cars just before 12:15 a.m. Sunday.
The teen allegedly ran a red light at the intersection of Las Tunas Drive and Rosemead Boulevard and broadsided a Lexus ES300 driven by Angela My Chung, who died of severe head trauma and internal injuries, police said.
The occupants of two other cars hit as a result of the collision suffered minor injuries, according to investigators.
Along with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, the girl is accused in a Juvenile Court petition of one felony count each of evading an officer causing death, evading an officer causing injury, and reckless driving causing specified injury.
She also faces a misdemeanor count of speed contest causing injury. The teen is due back in Eastlake Juvenile Court for another hearing on Jan. 15.
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