A Nebraska woman was charged on Wednesday weeks after a horrific, fiery DUI crash that killed her three daughters and an elderly man.
33-year-old Rachel Bickerstaff cried in a wheelchair as she was charged with four counts of motor vehicle homicide and one of DWI and causing serious bodily injury.
Prosecutors said Bickerstaff was three times the legal blood-alcohol limit and driving at 140 mph on Sept. 27 when she crashed into a Subaru Outback just before 1:30 a.m.
The two involved vehicles caught fire killing Bickerstaff’s three children and the 70-year-old driver of the other car.
Good Samaritans helped rescue Bickerstaff’s passenger, a 38-year-old man, but failed to save her trapped children, aged 11-day-old, and 5-year-old.
A third child, an 18-month-old girl who was ejected from the car, died days later from “haunting” wounds.
Bickerstaff spent weeks in the hospital suffering from severe wounds. Court documents showed the woman had a history of meth use.
