{"id":8776,"date":"2019-05-17T22:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3464685"},"modified":"2019-05-17T22:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:56:28","slug":"marijuana-fueled-crash-in-douglas-county-snuffs-life-of-young-woman-triggers-black-hole-of-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-fueled-crash-in-douglas-county-snuffs-life-of-young-woman-triggers-black-hole-of-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana-fueled crash in Douglas County snuffs life of young woman, triggers \u201cblack hole of grief\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-fueled-crash-in-douglas-county-snuffs-life-of-young-woman-triggers-black-hole-of-grief\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/17\/marijuana-crash-sentence-grief-mother\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-marijuana+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Marijuana%29&amp;utm_content=Google+UK#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"3464685\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3464801\" class=\"wp-caption alignright size-article_inline_half\"><img class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marijuana-fueled-crash-in-douglas-county-snuffs-life-of-young-woman-triggers-black-hole-of-grief.jpg\" width=\"994\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marijuana-fueled-crash-in-douglas-county-snuffs-life-of-young-woman-triggers-black-hole-of-grief.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/marijuana-fueled-crash-in-douglas-county-snuffs-life-of-young-woman-triggers-black-hole-of-grief.jpg 620w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.denverpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Amanda-Hill.jpg?fit=310%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 310w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p>Provided<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Hill, 24, was killed in 2018 with a man who had THC in his system. The man, Francisco Alexi Sanchez, has been sentenced to eight years in prison.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after the marijuana-impaired driver caused a crash that killed a woman, according to a release from the 18th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas County District Court Judge Theresa Slade sentenced Francisco Alexi Sanchez of Castle Rock recently following a deal in which he pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and one count of driving while ability impaired in the death of Amanda Hill, who was 24 when she died.<\/p>\n<p>Hill\u2019s mother, Denise Hill, told the judge she was living in a \u201cblack hole of grief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe loss of our daughter was absolutely 100 percent preventable,\u201d she said. \u201cThe defendant made reckless choices that fateful day. There must be consequences. We have to send a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On June 5, 2018, Hill was driving her Toyota RAV4 southbound on Crowfoot Valley Road just north of Castle Rock when Sanchez \u2014 driving north on the same road in a Saturn Vue \u2014 crossed a double yellow line, according to the news release by Vikki Migoya, spokeswoman for District Attorney George Brauchler. Sanchez hit two cars, including Hill\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez told investigators he had not been drinking or doing drugs, but he tested positive for low levels of THC, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to making drivers incapable of operating motor vehicles safely on our roads, marijuana once again proves it is just as deadly as alcohol. Here, another innocent life was snuffed out by someone who picked getting high on marijuana over his responsibility as a driver,\u201d Brauchler said in the release.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous family and friends of Hill attended the sentencing, and several addressed the court, including her father, Ed Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to live the rest of our lives without our beautiful daughter. This senseless act will cause us pain and suffering for the rest of our lives,\u201d Ed Hill said.\u00a0 \u201cThose who did wrong must take responsibility for their actions. The message must be sent to those who do drugs and drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>The judge suspended two years of the prison sentence for successful completion of community service, substance abuse treatment, participation in victim impact panels and monitored sobriety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>A Douglas County judge has sentenced a 20-year-old man to eight years in prison after the marijuana-impaired driver caused a four-car crash that killed a 24-year-old woman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1986,6811,6897,8154,7946,7127,851,6812,8155,8156,6813,7938,77,6814,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[4554,6816,6898,8157,7948,7130,3424,6817,8158,8159,6818,7939,2655,6819,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}