The man charged with killing a Peninsula photographer and her teen daughter in a fatal wrong-way crash pleaded not guilty Wednesday and will learn later this month if he'll stand trial.
Wen Tu Mei, 37, is charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter and one count of crossing over a divided highway stemming from the Jan. 30 crash that killed former San Francisco Examiner photojournalist Susan Caldwell, 41, and her 14-year-old daughter Nina Garrison. If convicted, he faces seven years and four months in prison,
Mei was reportedly driving south in the northbound lane on South San Francisco's Bayshore Boulevard when his minivan crashed head-on into Caldwell's 2000 Honda Accord at about 2:05 p.m. Caldwell died at the scene, and Garrison was pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital. Prosecutors filed an arrest warrant in March for Mei but weren't sure if he'd ever physically recover well enough to stand trial for the late January crash. Mei remains in custody at San Mateo County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail. He returns to court June 20 for a preliminary hearing on the evidence.
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