A US woman who allegedly asked her twin to take responsibility for a deadly crash with an Amish buggy has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Police said Samantha Peterson was high on methamphetamine after work when she rear-ended a horse-drawn buggy near Spring Valley , Minnesota , in September 2023.

Two sisters in the buggy, Wilma Miller, seven, and Irma Miller, 11, died, and two other siblings were seriously injured, authorities said.

After the crash, police said Samantha summoned her twin, Sarah, to the scene.

Her twin initially told officers she had been driving, but was recorded by police saying: "There's no way they would ever know the difference between the two of us so they can't tell."

Samantha has now pleaded guilty to criminal vehicular homicide under the influen

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