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Kauai woman sentenced to 1 year in jail for fatal crash

A 20-year-old Kauai woman was sentenced to one year in jail and 10 years’ probation in connection with a 2011 crash that killed a 16-year-old girl and seriously injured another passenger.

Kauai Circuit Judge Kathleen Watanabe sentenced Brittney L. Kane of Koloa on Wednesday.Her sentence include a five-year revocation of her driver’s license, 500 hours of community services and to pay more than $7,000 in restitution and funeral expenses.

Watanabe also ordered Kane to give public presentations and write letters to The Garden Island newspaper on the dangers of drunken driving and racing.

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