The driver in a 2024 hit-and-run crash that left a Long Beach woman dead accepted a plea deal with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Mario Acosta listened to victims’ impact statements on Friday and pleaded no contest to felony hit-and-run resulting in death.
The day after Christmas in 2024, Acosta crashed into Nikki Rash’s car near her Long Beach home. She died of her injuries nine days later. According to police, Acosta fled to his home in Northern California, just outside of Sacramento, and was later found…