A New York woman was sentenced more than a year after causing a fatal crash by failing to take her anti-seizure medication.

Jacklyn Parker, 25, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in July, almost one year after she was involved in a head-on collision with 60-year-old Colleen Selkirk in upstate New York. According to the Albany County District Attorney's Office, Parker was behind the wheel driving herself and a passenger on River Road in Selkirk on Aug. 19, 2024. While she was driving, she suffered an epileptic seizure, which caused her to veer across the double yellow line in the road and hit the vehicle driven by Selkirk.

Parker and her passenger were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Selkirk was pronounced dead at the scene.

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