Update posted March 24, 2021:
–District Attorney Dan Dow this week announced that 27-year-old Chelsea Annmarie Stiles has been sentenced to serve 15 years and eight months in state prison. In December 2020, a San Luis Obispo County jury convicted Stiles of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated; driving under the influence of a drug causing death; four counts of assault with a deadly weapon using an automobile; leaving the scene of a vehicle collision causing injury; child abuse; and misdemeanor possession of cocaine.
The deadly crash sequence occurred at 6 p.m. on Dec. 1, 2019, on Highway 227 when Ms. Stiles, while under the influence of cocaine, intentionally rear-ended an automobile containing a family of four at 74 miles per hour, disabling the vehicle. About 19 seconds later, Stiles drove into the opposing lane of travel striking Tilton’s vehicle head-on at 68 miles per hour, killing him instantly. The defendant’s 18-month-old daughter and two dogs were also in h