A Santa Barbara man has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and other charges after killing a 66-year-old marathon runner in August 2008, authorities said. <\/p>\n
Gregory Doan, 58, was drunk and high on heroin when his van swerved onto a shoulder, scattering a group of 20 runners who were training as part of a Lymphoma and Leukemia Society team. <\/p>\n
Caroline Samuels, who was looking forward to a marathon in San Francisco the next month, was trying to escape up an embankment when she was struck, police said. <\/p>\n
Samuels was a longtime resident of the Bay Area before moving to Santa Barbara about two years before the accident. She had become a docent at the Santa Barbara courthouse and had signed on to teach reading skills as an Americorps volunteer. <\/p>\n
Doan\u2019s plea was entered Thursday. He could be sentenced to 35 years in prison. He had four drunk-driving convictions in the 1990s, police said. <\/p>\n
–Steve Chawkins in Ventura County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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