She drove angry and killed a Pierce County man riding his ATV. Here’s her prison sentence
A 39-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to crashing into an ATV last year near Parkland, killing its driver.
Tashina Mori Borja was charged for vehicular homicide following the death of 45-year-old Michael Selby on Oct. 9, 2023, court records show.
Mori Borja pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide Thursday and was sentenced the same day. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Edmund Murphy sentenced Mori Borja to 18 months in prison, records show.
Charging details
Deputies were dispatched on Oct. 9, 2023, to a crash at 116th Street South and C Street South. A yellow ATV and a black motorcycle were in the roadway. Selby was lying in the roadway, and medical personnel treated him for “grievous” injuries, charging documents show.
Selby later was pronounced deceased.
His wife was at the scene and told deputies that she was driving the motorcycle while her husband was driving the ATV. She was driving through the intersection with Selby when a vehicle ran a stop sign at a high speed and struck the ATV, prosecutors wrote.
When a deputy tried to contact the driver of the Ford, she was unresponsive, and fire personnel had to extricate her from the car, prosecutors wrote. The driver of the Ford Flex was identified as Mori Borja.
A deputy reviewed footage of the crash from a nearby home’s security camera. The video showed Selby and his wife driving south on C Street South. The couple drove through the intersection and had the right of way. Selby was driving ahead of his wife. Footage showed Mori Borja allegedly driving through the stop sign at a high speed and striking Selby. She then drove into a nearby residence, prosecutors wrote.
Investigators spoke to Mori Borja and her husband on Oct. 24. She said she was driving to her sister’s house that day after she got into an argument with her husband. She said she was driving normally, but later said she had been driving angrily. She did not recall if she stopped at the stop sign. Mori Borja claimed she did not see any approaching vehicles, prosecutors wrote.
After reviewing video footage and assessing the post-impact distance and the collision with the house, investigators determined that Mori Borja was driving at 68 miles per hour. The speed limit on the streets where the crash occurred is 30 miles per hour, prosecutors wrote.
