From staff reports
— A Hays County grand jury has re-indicted an Austin woman already charged with intoxication manslaughter.
Miranda Michelle Martinez, 23, was re-indicted this month on the intoxication manslaughter charge and also on charges of manslaughter and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury.
All are second degree felonies. District Attorney Sherri Tibbe said the re-indictment was to add the “alternative charges.”
“All are based on the same set of facts, all are the same level of felony,” Tibbe said.
Martinez was injured, and 25-year-old Rebecca Ann Stuckey of San Marcos was killed, because Martinez was driving the wrong way on IH-35 on April 3, 2008.
The crash occurred at approximately 2:18 a.m. near the 218 mile marker.
DPS Trooper Jesse Amaya said Martinez’ 1994 Accura had originally been on the West Access Road but entered an off ramp at the 217 mm.
He said several vehicles scrambled to avoid the car before it hit Stuckey’s Jeep Cherokee head-on.
The force of the impact spun the Jeep around and Amaya said witnesses told him it “spun up in the air” before coming to rest in the grassy median upside down.
Martinez’ car, meanwhile, hit the center barrier, bounced off and landed in the westbound median. Amaya said rescuers had to use pneumatic tools to free her from the wreckage.
Stuckey was pronounced dead at Austin’s University Medical Center at Brackenridge.
