A Maytown woman was handed a 3-6 year sentence Monday for striking and killing a bicyclist while driving drunk last year.
Denise Hall, 50, who also has a residence in Florida, struck Michael Blankenbiller while he was riding on the right shoulder of Harrisburg Pike, in Manheim Township, near the Park City Center shopping mall at about 11:30 p.m., on Feb. 11, 2007.
Blankenbiller, 57, was struck from behind, thrown into the windshield of Hall’s Cadillac and onto the roadway. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to court records. According to police, he had proper lighting on his bicycle and was on the “extreme right side” of the road, the Intelligencer Journal reported this morning.
Hall had a blood-alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit after leaving a North Queen Street, Lancaster, bar. She did not know what road she was on when questioned by police. Assistant District Attorney Todd E. Brown said Hall told police she thought she was on Route 30 and complained that there were bicycles on the highway.
After serving the prison sentence, Hall was ordered to undergo four years of probation after her release.
