A woman with two previous convictions for driving under the influence was arrested on suspicion of murder after a fatal Riverside County crash this week.

Erica Pearl Machuca, 33, of Hemet, also was accused of causing injury while driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.08 or higher, police say.

She was being held at a Banning jail in lieu of $1 million bail and had not been charged as of Wednesday.

The two-car crash just after 9 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, in Wildomar killed Debra Amicay, 56, of Murrieta, who was a passenger in one of the cars. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department would not say in whose car Amicay was riding, citing the ongoing investigation.

The other driver was hospitalized in critical condition.

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