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FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

At approximately 8:30 a.m. on May 25, 2010, defendant was driving his car northbound on Highway 99 from Sacramento to Rideout Hospital in Yuba City, California, where he worked as a medical doctor. He was traveling approximately 65-75 miles per hour in the fast lane in heavy traffic. Defendant’s car swerved in and out of its lane several times before eventually crossing a grass median and striking an oncoming vehicle driven by Lilia Munoz in the southbound lane of Highway 99. After colliding with Munoz’s car, defendant’s car careened into an irrigation ditch on the southbound side of the highway. The force of the impact caused Munoz’s vehicle to spin several times before coming to rest on the right shoulder of the southbound lane. The left side of Munoz’s car was crushed; the tire twisted under, the trunk smashed and the rear window completely shattered. Several people who witnessed the accident stopped to assist the defendant and Munoz following the collision. Todd Dinwiddie, a former Sutter County reserve sheriff’s deputy, had been traveling a few cars behind defendant and reached defendant while he was still sitting in his car in the irrigation ditch.…