LOS ANGELES — A 25-year-old Fontana woman was convicted today of killing six people in a wrong-way car crash that occurred more than four years ago.
Olivia Carolee Culbreath pleaded no contest to six counts of second-degree murder. The open plea means a sentence was not negotiated with the District Attorney’s Office.
Culbreath is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 7.
In the early morning of Feb. 9, 2014, Culbreath drove her Camaro against traffic on the 57 and 60 freeways in the city of Diamond Bar, prosecutors said.
Culbreath was driving northbound on the southbound lanes of the 57 freeway and then traveled eastbound in the westbound lanes of the 60 freeway when she collided head-on with a Ford Explorer, prosecutors said.
All four occupants in the Ford Explorer, three generations of the same family, were killed. Two passengers in the Camaro, including Culbreath’s sister, also died in the collision, prosecutors added.
According to evidence presented at the preliminary hearing, Culbreath had previously been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol resulting in a collision. She was warned by the court about the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol and also was admonished that such future conduct could result in murder charges.
In addition, evidence was presented that Culbreath had a .15 percent blood alcohol content approximately three hours after the fatal crash.
The case was investigated by the California Highway Patrol.
