Brittanni Mathis had pulled over to adjust groceries in her trunk when she heard the sound of a vehicle rushing toward her.

The car hit her in the back, then ran over her legs, she told a judge Wednesday. She recalled blood gushing from her.

“I could feel myself dying,” she said. “I could feel the air coming out of my body.”

District Judge Jessica Peterson then sentenced Ryan Ugarte, the driver accused of injuring Mathis, to spend four to 10 years in prison.

Ugarte pleaded guilty in May to a count of DUI resulting in substantial bodily harm. Prosecutors and the defense agreed to a sentence of four to 10 years in state prison.

Prosecutors indicated in a charging document that the April crash occurred at Craig Road and Losee Road in North Las Vegas.

Ugarte apologized in a statement to

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