TACOMA — Sela Anne Kalama will serve 26 months in federal prison for driving into the Elwha River and killing two teenagers March 18.
Her prison term will be followed by three years’ supervised release that will include at least 200 hours of community service to Native American youth.
Kalama, 20, also must refrain from alcohol during her supervised release.
She had pleaded guilty Dec. 11 to two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Ronnie L. Scroggins, 15, and Vanna K. Francis, 17.
According to Kalama’s plea agreement, she had consumed more than a dozen containers of beer before driving, and had been text messaging on her cell phone while driving the car.
She drove her mother’s car and six teenage passengers off the Lower Elwha Road into the swollen river shortly after 3 a.m..
Scroggins, of the Makah reservation in Neah Bay, and Francis, of the Lower Elwha Klallam reservation near Port Angeles, were unable to escape the car.
Kalama, of the Quinault reservation in Queets, and four more of her passengers escaped her 1997 Kia sedan.
No barrier between the end of the road and the river was in place.
