Storm Lake, Iowa (RI) — A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for a wreck that killed a northwest Iowa woman last year.
A jury found Jorge Ardany Ortega-Ortega, formerly of Cherokee, guilty of homicide by vehicle for an accident that happened during a blizzard. Dash camera footage showed he drifted across the center line of a two-lane highway and stayed in the wrong lane for about a mile before his car hit another vehicle head-on.
The other driver, 65-year-old Rose Bumstead of Nemaha, was taken to a hospital in Storm Lake, where she died. As part of his sentence, Orega-Ortega has been ordered to pay $165,000 in restitution to Bumstead’s estate.
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