Motorist accused of killing bicyclist while intoxicated has received 16 traffic tickets since 2005, police say
Authorities said a Newport Beach woman accused of fatally striking a bicyclist while driving drunk had received more than a dozen traffic tickets over the last five years.
Danae Marie Miller, 22, was booked on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated related to the fatal crash on San Joaquin Hills Road in Newport Beach just before 6 p.m. Monday. The accident was the fourth fatal collision between a vehicle and a cyclist in Newport Beach since July 2009. Miller was released early Tuesday after posting $100,000 bail, Orange County Sheriff's Department records show.
Since 2005, Miller has been cited 16 times for alleged traffic violations, court records show.
She received six tickets for speeding or driving too fast for conditions each year between 2005 and 2009, a ticket in 2006 for driving the wrong way on a street, a failure to stop at a stop sign in 2007, and tickets in 2009 and 2010 for talking on her cellphone while driving.
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She had better spend some significant time in jail and get her drivers license revoked!
Posted by: Anna | February 23, 2011 at 08:45 AM
This person is a menace to society. Lock her up!
Posted by: Ray | February 23, 2011 at 08:56 AM
Can anyone please explain to me why this fool was still driving? Is it because she comes from an affluent area? Anyone from South Central L.A. would have had their license revoked permanently!
Posted by: Astonished | February 23, 2011 at 09:53 AM
I was an acquaintance of the cyclist. He graduated from UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School, competed in the Barcelona Olympic Games, spoke 3 languages and owned his own company. I'm not implying his life was more valuable than the next; I just hope Danae Marie Miller reads this and knows what she just deleted from the world.
Posted by: Rob | February 23, 2011 at 01:22 PM
I see people who drive like this woman and break the laws every day in that area and on the 405 freeway. People do not have any regard for laws now a days. It's sad. May the cyclist rest in peace. My prayers go out to his friends and family.
Posted by: Kimberly | February 23, 2011 at 02:15 PM
This is the end result of a society and a community which does not take the operation of a two-ton machine as a serious endeavor. When will we end this "blame the victim" and "can't do anything unless a police officer witnesses it" mentality when it comes to the private motor vehicle?
Posted by: Erik G. | February 24, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Since she was able to get her bail posted,hopefully the family of the murder victim will get adequate restitution.
Posted by: denus nusson | February 24, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Now let's see if the Justice system dishes out the very same punishment they did to Nick Adenhart's killer, who happens to be Latino.
The circumstances are similar. Both driver's were warned time and again and didn't stop until someone was killed. There's no playing around this one. Nick's killer got 49 years straight time, let see what worth they Courts place on this drunk driver when determining the sentence.
Posted by: Derek Greeley | February 24, 2011 at 04:31 PM
She knowingly drove her car whilst intoxicated and murdered an innocent man! Shame on her!!!! She will live with the fact that she's a murderer for the rest of her wretched life!
God bless the memory of the cyclist and his family.
Posted by: Disgusted | February 25, 2011 at 02:33 PM
Dearest Derek Greeley,
I'm sure the killer in the baseball case didn't get 49 years for being latino, it was because it was a high profiled case.
Use some common sense when posting.
Posted by: westsidejesse | February 25, 2011 at 05:28 PM