Driver who killed bride on her wedding night gets 25 years in prison

Jamie Lee Komoroski will spend more than two decades in prison after pleading guilty to killing bride, Samantha Miller, and injuring her boyfriend, Aric Hutchinson, in a crash caused while driving under the influence of alcohol.

Komoroski, 27, rammed into the newlyweds in late April as they had just left their wedding reception in a golf cart decorated with a "just married" sign and cans. They had been married for a mere five hours. Miller died at the scene. In addition to her husband, two others were injured at the scene of the accident.

The sentence includes 25 years for reckless homicide, 10 years for felony DUI and another 15 years for two counts of DUI with serious injury. But because they are concurrent (meaning she can serve multiple sentences at the same time), she will spend 25 years behind bars.

"I take full responsibility for the tragic outcome that my decisions have made. I will carry this guilt with me for the rest of my life," Komoroski said after pleading guilty. She acknowledged that she had an alcohol addiction problem. Authorities claim that on the night of the fatal crash she had three times more alcohol in his blood than legally allowed, and that he was driving 65 mph (104 km/h) in a 25 mph (40 km/h) zone.

"I wish I had died that night," Miller's husband said. "I wish I had seen it coming. I'd have jumped off the golf cart so you would only have run me over." Hutchinson won $863,000 in settlements with bars that served Komoroski, her insurance company and the company that rented her car.

"We have been sentenced to a lifetime of pain," said the deceased's mother, Lisa. "She will always be my child."