Washington: Dawn Vrentas killed two while drunk driving ten years ago; charged again with DUI

Dawn Vrentas
The killer of two people busted again for DUI — Dawn Wiltzius Vrentas

Victim’s sister says “you don’t get another chance”

From KXLY

The woman responsible for a fatal DUI crash that killed two Mt. Spokane High School grads a decade ago was back in court this week, charged with another DUI.

On Wednesday, Dawn Vrentas, 31, was charged with felony DUI in King County.  Washington State Patrol pulled Vrentas over for speeding on Saturday along Interstate 5.

Vrentas allegedly had a blood alcohol level of .14.  The legal limit in Washington in .08.

In 2000, at just 18-years old, Vrentas was convicted of DUI.  In 2003, she was driving drunk, crashed into a marsh in Pend Oreille County and killed two of her friends, Kyle Hutchinson and Walter Corman.  Vrentas, who at the time went by her maiden name, Wiltzius, was convicted of vehicular manslaughter and served five and half years in prison.

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