SANTA ANA — A 25-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for causing a crash that killed a motorcyclist in Westminster.
The collision occurred about 2 a.m. March 8 at Beach Boulevard and McFadden Avenue, according to police. Abdallah Hussein Ali Eid ran from the crash, but police found him in the area with help from multiple witnesses, police said.
Eid of Westminster pleaded guilty Nov. 19 to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated without gross negligence, driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of 0.08% or more causing injury, driving under the influence of alcohol and a drug while causing injury, hit and run with permanent and serious injury, and failing to stop at an accident with a hit-and-run with death, all felonies.
Eid also admitted a sentencing enhancement for fleeing the scene of a vehicular manslaughter.
Eid was given credit for 568 days behind bars.
The victim was identified as 38-year-old Nathan Philip Perreault of Huntington Beach.
