Driver sentenced to twelve years for collision that killed Coastside teens

Patrick Worden, who pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in a collision that killed two teens, has been sentenced to twelve years in prison, reports the Chronicle. This was the maximum possible sentence. His car struck Ashley Prather, 16, and Jihan Abdel-Gawad, 18, when they were waiting for help at the side of the road in Burlingame.

Abdel-Gawad lived in Mirimar and was attending Skyline College. Prather had moved from Half Moon Bay to Seaside in Monterey County.