A Waldport woman originally charged with five counts of assault and recklessly endangering others for causing a three-vehicle crash last November on U.S. Highway 101 has been sentenced to one year in the county jail after pleading guilty to three of the charges.
Angela M. Sherlock, 67, was sentenced to 364 days in the Lincoln County jail after pleading guilty May 29 to third-degree assault and two counts of recklessly endangering others.
As part of a plea agreement, a second count of assault, one of recklessly endangering and a charge of reckless driving were dismissed. Sherlock was also ordered to pay $1,199 to one of the crash victims.
Once Sherlock has finished her jail time, she will be on probation for three years and prohibited from using or possessing alcohol, not enter any bar, tavern, liquor store or marijuana dispensary, and enter into an alcohol or drug treatment program, among other conditions.
The crash occurred at 3:18 p.m. Nov. 24, 2023 one mile north of Waldport when Sherlock drove her southbound Toyota pickup into the northbound lane, forcing the car of Clayton Love, 70, of Seal Rock into the southbound lane, where it collided head on with a Dodge pickup. It took firefighters 20 minutes to cut Love out of his Buick.
A probable cause affidavit said there were six witnesses to the accident who said Sherlock’s truck “swerved multiple times” before the crash. Two witnesses followed the truck and took down its license plate number. Oregon State Police Senior Trooper Scott Severson and sheriff’s Deputy Garrett Brawdy went to the address for the truck and arrested Sherlock.
A field sobriety test showed signs of impairment, Severson’s probable cause affidavit said, but Sherlock’s breath sample showed no alcohol use. He then had to get a search warrant to get a urine sample to test for drugs.
The biggest part nobody wants to report on is she had many drugs in her system both legal and illegal and should have received a DUII and lost her license but the district attorney’s office dropped the ball big time.