SEBASTIAN — A Sebastian woman who was arrested earlier this year on a DUI charge has been sentenced to serve time in the county jail while she still awaits a court date for her unrelated DUI manslaughter case.
Taylor Alannah Harris, 25, of Rolling Hill Drive, Sebastian, will spend the next six months in the county jail and serve one year probation after pleading no contest to a DUI charge stemming from her arrest in February. Her license will also be suspended for a year and she will have to attend DUI school.
The arrest came after authorities stopped Harris traveling 93 mph in a 45 mph zone near Dale Wimbrow Park in the 11000 block of Roseland Road, according to the arrest affidavit.
Harris told authorities she was driving fast in fear because an unknown vehicle attempted to run her off the road twice.
After failing several roadside sobriety tests, Harris was transported to the Indian River County Jail for booking, where she failed two Breathalyzer tests, blowing 0.113 and 0.119, the arrest report shows. The legal breath alcohol level is 0.08 in Florida.
Harris’s DUI manslaughter case is still pending in court. According to authorities, Harris was the driver in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 in April 2015 that killed her 23-year-old passenger, Michael Richard Lang. Reports showed Harris lost control of the vehicle during a rainstorm and crashed into a tree.
Lang was not wearing his seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Harris was booked into the Indian River County Jail on Aug. 25, 2015, for the April incident. She was released the next day after posting $25,000 bond. That bond has since been revoked due to the February DUI arrest.
