You may remember her from the 1990s Aaron Spelling series, Melrose Place, but actress Amy Locane is in the news this week, and it has nothing to do with her acting career.

Sunday, June 27, Locane-Bovenizer had not one, but two car accidents, one from which she fled the scene, and the second which resulted in the death of a 60-year-old New Jersey woman, Helene Seeman. Seeman’s husband, who was driving the couple’s sedan, was seriously injured and remains incapacitated in the hospital. The couple’s youngest son, 17-year-old Curtis Seeman was with his mother when she died.

One witness in Princeton, NJ, claimed that Locane-Bovenizer struck another vehicle miles away and fled the scene, knocking down mailboxes in her haste to get away.

According to CBS News, Locane-Bovenizer admitted to consuming several glasses of wine, and Somerset County Acting Prosecutor A. Peter DeMarco, Jr. said she appeared drunk, with blood shot eyes and slurred speech, before she was taken to a nearby hospital to have her blood alcohol tested.

Locane-Bovenizer, the mother of two small children, is being charged with vehicular homicide and second and third degree assault by automobile. She could face up to ten years in prison. A small price to pay for taking someone else’s life, I think.