From New York Post · · 1m 10s
Driver sentenced to 7 years for college student death
Texas driver gets 7 years jail for drunk crash killing college student.
In brief
Texas driver gets 7 years jail for drunk crash killing college student. Lynlee Pollis, 30, received 7 years in prison for fatally hitting a college student in Dallas in 2023. Originally reported by New York Post.
Lynlee Pollis sentenced
Lynlee Pollis, 30, was sentenced to seven years behind bars for fatally plowing down a college student in Dallas in 2023.
Additional jail terms
Pollis must return to jail for 15 days annually, including Christmas, her birthday and victims’ birthdays, for a decade after release.
Victim impact statements
Solberg’s father said Pollis was so drunk she wouldn’t admit it and made them sit through trial for three weeks.
“You were so drunk and you wouldn’t admit it”
Blood alcohol test
Pollis had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.294% hours after the crash, nearly four times Texas’s legal limit.
Defense arguments
Defense claimed Pollis was not drunk and blood alcohol evidence was unreliable due to collection and storage issues.
Sentence details
Pollis must serve 10 years of probation after release and report to jail for 15 days each year she’s on probation.
Here's the gist
Lynlee Pollis, 30, received 7 years in prison for fatally hitting a college student in Dallas in 2023.
