Overview
- Orange County prosecutors filed new counts including vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after lab tests confirmed fentanyl, methamphetamine, and marijuana in Amber Kristine Calderon’s system.
- The Orange County Sheriff’s Crime Lab returned toxicology results on December 10, 2025, prompting the charging upgrade announced December 16.
- Calderon, 43, now faces multiple felonies—among them DUI causing injury, possession of hard drugs with prior convictions, and three hit-and-run counts—with a maximum exposure of 12 years and four months.
- Prosecutors say Calderon drove onto the shoulder of Pacific Coast Highway on October 20, striking three cyclists and killing 45-year-old Eric John Williams, while two others suffered serious injuries.
- After the collision, she allegedly continued about two-thirds of a mile on a flat tire to a Magnolia Street beach lot, where a witness boxed in her vehicle before authorities detained her.