SEQUIM — The driver in a single-car crash that killed a 13-year-old Sequim Middle School girl last summer has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide.
Ray Chipman, 46, pleaded guilty on June 4 in King County Superior Court to first-degree vehicular homicide, a Class-A felony, in the death of KayDee Chrisman-Campbell.
He will be sentenced July 2 by Judge Brian Gain.
Standard sentencing for vehicular homicide is 21 to 27 months, with a maximum of life in prison and a $50,000 fine.
Prosecutors are recommending a 21-month sentence and financial restitution to be determined at sentencing, said Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Chipman was driving July 19, 2003, on state Highway 169 near Maple Valley when he fell asleep at the wheel and struck a utility pole.
KayDee and her mother, Ronda Campbell, who were riding with Chipman, were critically injured and transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
KayDee never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead three days later.
Ronda Campbell sustained several broken bones and facial lacerations.
Chipman was mildly injured and treated at Harborview.
