1-YEAR SENTENCE IN FATAL DUI CRASH

A Cloverdale woman was sentenced Thursday to a year in county jail for a

drunken-driving crash that killed an 84-year-old Napa County woman.

Lisa Christine McCoy, 37, also was given a suspended prison sentence of six

years and eight months, and ordered to complete a residential alcohol

treatment program.

CHP officers said McCoy was driving on Highway 128 about three miles

northwest of Cloverdale on Aug. 31, 2003, when her truck crossed the

centerline and collided with a car driven by Floyd Riley of Yountville.

Riley's wife, Myrtle Riley, was seriously hurt in the crash and died about

a week later. Witnesses said McCoy ran into the woods. She later turned

herself in to authorities.

McCoy had been drinking in a Cloverdale bar and was seen driving recklessly

before the crash, witnesses said. Investigators found empty beer bottles in

her truck.

At the time, she was on probation for a drunken-driving conviction.

McCoy has been in Sonoma County Jail on $50,000 bail.

Last month, she pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter, drunken

driving and hit-and-run driving.

-- Steve Hart