A 28-year-old Southern California man who crashed his souped-up Camaro into another vehicle at nearly 100 miles per hour, killing the other driver, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years to life in pris…
, Doaifi’s Camaro — which he had outfitted with a supercharged V-8 engine while removing the catalytic converter and installing racing tires — was going 99 mph two-and-a-half seconds before colliding with Noval’s Hyundai. Noval died about a month later from injuries sustained in the crash.
At least one of the previous speeding tickets — for going 109 mph on the I-5 Freeway in Mission Viejo — had landed Doaifi in front of a judge, where he claimed the arrest was a “pretty big wakeup call.” The prosecutor also played for jurors a recorded 911 call made by Doaifi in the minutes after the crash, in which he seemingly blamed the other driver and spoke about the damage to his car.
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