The two women found guilty of causing a fatal auto accident in 2022 have been sentenced to prison.

Ivory Nicole Quinn, 32, and Sonya Latriese Kinney, 32, were sentenced Tuesday to six-year prison sentences for aggravated vehicular homicide after they caused a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 75 in which one driver was killed.

Wood County Common Pleas Judge Matt Reger said the maximum prison term was nine years due to the offense falling under Reagan Tokes Act stipulations.

Both women plan to appeal the sentence.

A jury also on Jan. 12 found both women of guilty of two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide; falsification; operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination; and driving under suspension.

The jury also found Quinn, who was driving, guilty of a second OVI charge for having a blood alcohol content above 0.08. Her BAC was 0.102.

During the trial, it was disclosed that the women, who live in Toledo, had been drinking before leaving work.

Shortly after 10 p.m. on March 3, 2022, on I-75 near North Baltimore, Kinney, who was the passenger, jerked the steering wheel causing the vehicle to hit the median. It came to rest in the left lane.

They said they were standing outside their Cadillac SUV for one or two minutes, but during that time didn’t turn on any hazard lights to warn approaching vehicles. They also made no effort to call 911.

Brandy Houghtalling, 34, Whitehouse, was driving a 2014 Ford Fusion northbound and struck the Cadillac and pushed it partially into the right lane, where it was hit by another vehicle.

She was pronounced dead at the scene after being removed from her vehicle by mechanical means.

Kent Sobran, who was Quinn’s attorney, requested a new trial. He argued that there could have been a different outcome if certain evidence hadn’t been presented.

Reger said Quinn’s prior convictions for driving while intoxicated were stipulated prior to the trial.

“You and your client did stipulate to it,” he said, and denied the request.

Lawrence Gold, who defended Kinney, said his client had six minor children and asked for a sentence on the lower end to allow her to get back to her family.

The two aggravated vehicle homicide charges — one for Houghtalling’s death and one for recklessly causing the death — were merged for the purpose of sentencing.

The sentence for aggravated vehicle homicide is three-16 years, Reger said.

“A tragedy occurred, and a life was lost. My client understands that,” Gold said.

Houghtalling’s three children spoke about how their mom was their best friend and all they had left was videos and photos.

They killed the person who loved me most, said son Robert Taylor III.

Daughter DezMariah King said she won’t see her mom again due to people’s poor choices.

Daughter TaMaya Nave called Houghtalling “the best mom there ever was.”

Wood County Prosecuting Attorney Brian Boos read a letter submitted by Houghtalling’s mother, Cheryl Valentine.

Valentine said in her letter that she last spoke to her daughter at 8 the night of the crash.

“For her life to be taken so suddenly was preventable,” she wrote.

Boos asked for equal sentences as both caused the crash.

“Words can’t explain how sorry I am,” Quinn said.

Kinney cried while she softly read her statement, making her words unintelligible.

“This particular accident was avoidable,” Reger said.

Quinn had a blood alcohol level of 0.125-0.155, which delayed her ability to react when Kinney grabbed the steering wheel, he said.

The accident was the result of poor choices, he said, and added it was incomprehensible to go to work, drink, the operate a vehicle.

He pointed out Quinn had been convicted twice before for OVI and had 10 prior offenses for either driving under suspension or driving with no operator’s license.

When he imposed the minimum six-year prison sentence, there were gasps of disbelief from her family in the audience.

Recidivism factors were very high for both women, who misled law enforcement during the investigation, he said.

Kinney had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.102 when tested, Reger said.

“Your grabbing the wheel without any reason or purpose was the starting factor,” Reger said about the chain of events leading up to the crash.

And while Kinney was not driving, the state made the case during the trial that aggravated vehicular homicide stipulates a defendant “did, while operating or participating in the operation of a motor vehicle, cause the death.”

He said it was appropriate to treat the two women equally and sentenced Kinney to six years for the aggravated vehicular homicide charge.

Reger also suspended Quinn’s and Kinney’s driver’s licenses for life.

Both women also were sentenced for multiple misdemeanors; those sentences must run concurrently.