No bail for driver in Windsor Hills crash
LOS ANGELES (KYMA, KECY/CNN) - A nurse accused of speeding into a Windsor Hills intersection and causing a crash that killed five people and an unborn baby was ordered to remain jailed without bail.
A Superior Court Judge said the charged - Nicole Lorraine Linton - allegedly floored the gas pedal in her car and was driving at 130 mph just before the deadly crash on August 4 at La Brea Avenue and Slauson Avenue.
The judge also said the 37-year-old woman did not try to stop or slow down causing six people to suffer quote 'horrific deaths.'
Linton's attorney requested that the defendant be released to a mental health treatment facility and to be electronically monitored.
Prosecutors objected to the request stating that Linton's Mercedes-Benz indicated that she accelerated from 122 miles per hour to 130 miles per hour five seconds before the crash and that she maintained control of the steering wheel.
Linton, a traveling nurse from Houston who was working at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center is charged with six counts of murder and five counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
