The woman who allegedly killed a bicyclist in an October hit-and-run crash in Huntington Beach had fentanyl and methamphetamine in her system at the time of the collision, prosecutors say.
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday announced upgraded charges against Long Beach resident Amber Kristine Calderon, 43, after toxicology results showed the drugs in her system on the morning of Oct. 20’s deadly crash. She also had marijuana in her system at the time, prosecutors confirmed.
Calderon was behind the wheel of an SUV on Pacific Coast Highway at about 6:47 a.m. when she allegedly drove onto the shoulder of the road into a group of three bicyclists, including 45-year-old Eric John Williams, a father of four. Williams, the pastor of a small church in Orange County, was pronounced dead at the scene…