A 39-year-old woman from LaSalle, Colorado, was recently sentenced to a lengthy probation term rather than prison after crossing over the center line on Christmas Eve two years ago and killing an off-duty deputy in a head-on collision.
Kayla Remus Carroll was driving northbound on Weld County 49 in rural Weld County on Dec. 24, 2023, when her Toyota pickup truck veered into oncoming traffic. The front driver’s side corner of her truck struck the same corner of another Toyota pickup traveling in the opposite direction.
Carroll’s truck spun back into the northbound lanes. Carroll was eventually flown to a hospital by a medical copter. Her two children, a 1-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, were also injured and driven to hospitals.
The only person in the other truck, 31-year-old Joshua Maloy, died at the scene. Maloy was a deputy for the Adams County Sheriff’s Office and was off duty at the time of the crash…