NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — A 28-year-old Grand Ronde woman has begun serving a four-month sentence on charges filed after she drove her SUV with three children into a creek.
In November 2009, rescuers pulled Amber Gandy and her youngsters aged 3, 2 and 6 months from Widow Creek east of Lincoln City.
The Oregonian newspaper reported that an hour after the crash, blood alcohol test results were three times the legal limit.
Gandy was convicted Tuesday of drunken driving, assault, reckless driving and reckless endangerment. Judge Thomas Branford sentenced her Thursday to 122 days, with the drunken driving sentence of 180 days suspended until a review in June.
