A 48-year-old man convicted of felony vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run charges for a crash that killed a man near La Honda in 2016 was sentenced to 11 years in state prison Thursday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
After a 21-day trial in November, El Granada resident Tom Doane was found guilty of his charges in a March 27, 2016, incident that killed Francois Jouaux, a 46-year-old man with a wife and children. He was ordered to pay $1,143,624.06 in restitution to the victim and will receive 1,366 days credit for time served, according to prosecutors.
Just before 7 p.m., Doane drove his 2001 Ford F-250 into opposing lanes of traffic on the 7400 block of La Honda Road and crashed head-on into a 1992 Honda Civic driven by Jouaux. The truck rolled over the Honda, killing Jouaux, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
A witness saw Doane climb out of the overturned Ford bleeding from his mangled left hand and arm, saying “I need to die ... I really just need to die,” prosecutors said.
He fled into the woods and California Highway Patrol officers were unable to find him.
Doane later showed up at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Redwood City and said he had been in a motorcycle accident, but he was the registered owner of the truck and investigators were able to link him to the crash, prosecutors said.
His defense attorney Dan Barton was not immediately available for comment.
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