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Police say street racing caused a crash in Yakima that injured a woman and her 4-year-old son.
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Officers said two Cadillacs were racing on North Foothills Drive east of Division when one of them rammed into a Pathfinder Sunday afternoon. The woman driving the Pathfinder said she was only going about 5 miles per hour when the speeding Cadillac hit her car and forced her off the road. Police said the woman who caused the crash initially got out of her car and ran away, but officers caught up to her and arrested her. She was arrested for driving with a suspended license. Police said she also had two warrants out for her arrest.
A man convicted of participating in a street race wreck that killed another man will spend a year in prison. Thomas Appleton received a 10-year sentence Wednesday in Albemarle Circuit Court. Judge Cheryl Higgins then suspended nine years of the sentence. Appleton also will lose his driver's license for a year. Higgins says he must then petition the court for the license's reinstatement. Prosecutors say Appleton and 18-year-old Samuel Taylor were racing on Sept. 5, 2012, when their vehicles collided. Taylor's car ran off the road, hit a stump, went airborne and crashed into a tree.