KANSAS CITY —A Kansas City-area woman is going to prison for her role in a fatal DUI crash.
Desire C. Smith, 41, Blue Springs, was sentenced to 15 years Friday after pleading guilty to DWI Death of a Another Not Passenger, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.
According to court records, the Missouri Highway Patrol were dispatched on June 14, 2019, to Interstate 70, near Adams Dairy Parkway and found Smith's Cadillac and another vehicle involved in the crash.
The woman who drove the other vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses told troopers that defendant's vehicle was headed westbound in the eastbound lane when she struck the victim's vehicle.
According to court documents, a partially consumed bottle of liquor was in the passenger seat of the Cadillac and a trooper at the hospital observed alcohol on Smith’s breath. A blood test was administered to determine her blood-alcohol concentration.