Pangan

I. INTRODUCTION

This is a driving under the influence with injury case (Veh. Code, § 23153) in which the .trial judge’s conscientious and painstaking calculation of a restitution award failed to take into account the time value of money. When the court computed the value of the victim’s $246.50 per month in pension benefits, it multiplied that monthly benefit by a calculated likely lifespan and ordered a payment of $70,000. Defense counsel did not object, and defendant was hit with a restitution order that overstates the victim’s actual economic loss by,thousands of dollars.

We now hold:

II. FACTS

Rommel Pangan was convicted of causing great bodily injury while driving under the influence. (See Pen. Code, § 12022.7.) He was sentenced to six *577 years in prison. The victim was Oscar Muniz, who sustained serious injuries, including broken ribs, back fractures, and a bad knee injury when his vehicle was hit by Pangan’s vehicle traveling down Beach Boulevard on January 23, 2009. This court affirmed Pangan’s conviction in an unpublished opinion filed June 30, 2011. (People v. Pangan (June 30, 2011, G043845) [nonpub. opn.].)

Pangan had no car insurance. The case returned…