Driver in Double Fatal Crash To Be Sentenced to 10 Years

STAMFORD, CT - Ten years in jail — that's the sentence facing the Stamford woman charged with two counts of manslaughter for speeding through a red light and crashing into another car, killing her passenger and a Cos Cob woman who was a passenger in the other car.

Felicia Burl, 33, also pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and hindering prosecution in state Superior Court in Stamford on Tuesday and will be sentenced to 10 years in jail and 10 years of parole on May 5, according to The Advocate.

Burl was caught by Stamford Police and U.S. Marshals in December 2014, after spending nearly a month on the lam. It was on Nov. 7, 2014, when she sped down Alvord Lane on the Stamford-Old Greenwich border at an estimated 40 to 45 mph, ran a red light and broadsided the passenger side of a car operated by Cos Cob resident Anthony Andriuli. His wife Judith was in the passenger seat and died hours later from her injuries.

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The owner of the Nissan Maxima that Burl was a passenger in the Altima, identified as Nixon Henry, 50, of Ursula Place, Stamford, was ejected from the car and fatally injured.

Burl, whose criminal record includes numerous convictions for various charges including possession of narcotics, larceny, escape and hindering prosecution, has been held in lieu of $500,000 bond since her arrest, according to the Connecticut Judicial Branch website.

The Advocate story can be found here.

Patch file photo: Felicia Burl.