ROSEVILLE (AP) -- A 47-year-old woman who authorities say was drunk when her van struck a car in suburban Detroit carrying four young people, killing them, has been charged with four murder counts.
The crash yesterday in Roseville claimed the lives of a 19-year-old man and three students at Lake Shore High School in St. Clair Shores. Students Erica Haudek, Stephanie Currie and Jordan Micelak died yesterday.
Nineteen-year-old Devon Spurlock, who was driving the teenagers' car, died this morning.
Spurlock's car was waiting to make a turn when it was struck by a full-size van driven by Frances Patricia Dingle of Clinton Township.
Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith say Dingle's blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit of 0.08.
Smith's office charged her with four counts of second-degree murder and four counts of driving under the influence causing death. She was to be arraigned at St. John Macomb Hospital, where she was being treated for non-serious crash injuries.
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