Watson

Filed 10/8/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE, D061668

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v. (Super. Ct. No. JCF21457)

JULIE ANN WATSON,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Imperial County, Christopher

W. Yeager, Judge. Affirmed.

Cynthia A. Grimm, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney

General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Michael T. Murphy and Sabrina

Y. Lane-Erwin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

The defendant in this case was driving an off-road vehicle at 60 miles an hour in

sand dunes in Imperial County at 10:30 in the evening. The defendant did not have her

headlights on, and she had a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.18/0.17. The defendant struck the rear of a much slower moving four-wheel all-terrain vehicle (quad),

which was being driven in the dunes by a 15 year old. The 15 year old was thrown from

the quad and…