BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Telegraph Staff Writer
STARKE— A judge sentenced a 41-year-old Baker County woman to eight years in prison after she pleaded to driving drunk and killing a Jacksonville man.
Bradford deputies arrested Casondra Lynn Anderson, 41, of Glen St. Mary on Dec. 6 for DUI, vehicular homicide, and reckless driving. In a plea agreement, Anderson pleaded to a manslaughter charge, and the state dropped the reckless driving allegation. The defendant also pleaded to DUI with Property damage, for which Judge James Colaw sentenced her to 172 days in jail with 172 days credit for time served.
According to an FHP crash report, on April 1, 2021, the defendant was driving a 2005 Dodge Ram when she rear-ended a 2010 Buick Enclave driven by Makia Simone Baker, 32, of Hinesville, Georgia.
Both vehicles were traveling on State Road 16 toward Raiford and Baker was slowing to make a left turn onto Northwest 177th Street toward Pleasant Grove when the collision occurred.
The crash propelled the Buick into a shallow ditch. The vehicle overturned and ejected Baker’s right-front-seat passenger: Joseph David Luke, 59, of Jacksonville. Bradford emergency medical responders pronounced Luke dead at the scene.
