Cayla Cushman was sentenced to 12 years in prison last week for hitting and killing 60-year-old Alice Yuan while driving high on methamphetamine last year, the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said.

Cushman, 28, had already been convicted of drunk driving twice before the deadly collision, in 2015 and 2018.

“Whether you had a gun and killed someone or drove your car drunk and killed someone, a family is destroyed,” Arapahoe County District Court Judge Darren Vahle said. “The devastation you brought is overwhelming.”

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Cushman plead guilty to vehicular homicide DUI on Sept. 25, 2020 and received the maximum sentence allowed by the plea agreement.

The collision happened on Feb. 16, 2020 when Yuan was driving home from a 10-hour shift at her restaurant job.

Yuan was driving on South Platte Canyon Road in Columbine Valley when Cushman came from the opposite direction, driving while high on meth and at 70 mph, twice the speed limit.

Cushman crossed the center line and hit Yuan’s car, killing her at the scene.

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“My family lost a mom, a wife, a daughter, a sister, an aunt and a grandmother to six grandchildren,” said one of Yuan’s daughters during the hearing. “She carried so much on her shoulders and did all this with a smile and a laugh.”

Two of Yuan’s four daughters made statements at the hearing, arguing for the maximum sentence.

“Our father has been disabled for many years now, and our mother was by his side every day,” read a statement from one daughter. “She was under an interlock device, under the influence of meth and she still chose to drive.”

“My mother did not deserve to die.”