A driver incapacitated when he allegedly caused a crash that killed a local photojournalist and her teenage daughter will be prosecuted if he recovers enough to come to court, the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office announced yesterday.
Wen Tu Mei, 37, faces two counts of vehicular manslaughter and one count of crossing over a divided highway causing death in connection with the late January crash that killed San Francisco Examiner photographer Susan Caldwell, 41, and her 14-year-old daughter Nina Garrison.
Following a March 11 recommendation by the South San Francisco Police Department, the prosecution has obtained an arrest warrant for Mei. However, the warrant will not be served "until he can be released into the criminal justice system's hands," Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said yesterday. "What the future holds and when he'll be able to come to court is completely unknown."
Mei was driving the minivan that collided head-on with Caldwell's 2000 Honda Accord on Bayshore Boulevard in South San Francisco on Jan. 30. Mei was evidently driving south in the northbound lane when the crash occurred about 2:05 p.m. Caldwell died at the scene and Garrison died later at a hospital.
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