Crash killed passenger taking Snapchat from sunroof, US officials say. Driver sentenced


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  • Monday, 27 Feb 2023

At the time of the crash on March 18, 2021, Shaver’s passenger, Laney Zambri, was “filming a Snapchat video while standing through the sunroof” on Pacific Coast Highway in Ventura, prosecutors said. — Bloomberg

A passenger in a vehicle died in a car crash while filming a Snapchat video, and now the woman driving is going to jail, according to prosecutors in California.

Lindsey Shaver, 21, who pleaded guilty to “gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated,” was given a 90-day jail sentence, the Ventura County District Attorney’s office said in a Feb. 23 news release.

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