A 22-year-old Fresno man has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison for two crashes prosecutors say were caused by marijuana impairment, the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.

William Reyes Lozano pleaded guilty on Aug. 15 to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while impaired and two counts of driving under the influence causing injury.

The sentence was handed down Thursday by Judge Jonathan Conklin in Fresno County Superior Court. Lozano faced a maximum of 13 years.

Authorities said Lozano was driving a Chevrolet Impala at high speed on June 24, 2023, when he sideswiped a parked car and struck two occupied vehicles on Cornell Avenue, injuring both occupants.

Bystanders detained him until California Highway Patrol officers arrived. Toxicology tests

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