Local Man Gets Life for Vehicular Manslaughter

A 54-year-old Altadena man who caused a three-vehicle collision when he ran a red light, killing one woman and injuring two others, was sentenced to 15 years to life last week.

Traveling at 76 miles an hour Hal Lee Moore reportedly plowed into the passenger side of a vehicle killing Bertha Vasquez Arias, 30, and injuring the driver of that car. Moore fled the scene, but was followed by a witness who notified police who arrested Moore at his home in Altadena.

Moore was later convicted of four felony counts – gross vehicular manslaughter, leaving the scene of an accident, evading an officer with willful disregard and second-degree murder, two misdemeanor counts of reckless driving with bodily injury and a single misdemeanor count of resisting a peace officer.

Pasadena Superior Court Judge Teri Schwartz also ordered Moore to pay $21,000 in victim restitution.