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B.G. woman faces vehicular homicide charge in crash

By Laura McVicker
Published: November 14, 2009, 12:00am

A Battle Ground woman faces a vehicular homicide charge after she allegedly drove drunk and caused a May crash that later killed her passenger.

Paperwork filed this week in Clark County Superior Court includes a summons for Shastina M. Lapping, 24, to appear in court Nov. 24 on a charge of vehicular homicide while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor.

Lapping’s passenger, Emily Buck, 25, of Battle Ground died in a hospital July 3 of blunt force injuries, nearly two months after the crash.

At about 1 a.m. May 9, Lapping was driving a Buick in the 17500 block of Northeast 142nd Avenue and lost control. The car approached a curve, went off the road, hit a tree and flipped, sheriff’s deputies said after the crash.

A 911 caller reported that Buck was unconscious, with a head wound. The caller also reported the car was off the road on its top, deputies said.

Lapping was treated and released with minor injuries from Southwest Washington Medical Center.

According to an affidavit, a blood draw at the hospital showed Lapping allegedly had a blood-alcohol content of .13 an hour and a half after the crash. (The legal limit in Washington is .08).

When questioned by deputies, Lapping said she, Buck and several other friends had been drinking earlier that evening at the Prairie Bar & Grill in Brush Prairie. She told deputies she had consumed three shots of hard liquor and one beer, according to the affidavit.

Her friends, in a separate vehicle, told deputies they had “begged her not to drive” and that she had drunk “a lot,” according to the affidavit.

A traffic investigation later showed Lapping was allegedly driving 78 mph in a 50 mph zone when she lost control of her vehicle.

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