A Big Bear man who crashed head-on into another car on Old Woman Springs Road in December 2017, killing both occupants of the other vehicle, was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for vehicular manslaughter. Michael Daugherty, who will turn 26 next week, was driving his Dodge Durango northbound on Old Woman Springs Road on December 1, 2017, when he attempted to pass a tractor-trailer just north of Linn Road in Landers. When Daugherty pulled into the southbound lane to pass, he saw a Chevrolet Cavalier, driven by Krüe Karnbach, 22, of Johnson Valley, driving toward him in the southbound lane. Both drivers took evasive action, but they collided head on. Karnbach and his passenger, Natalie Craddock, 19, were killed, and Daugherty and his one-year-old daughter were injured. Daughtery was arrested last June on two counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and one count of felony child abuse. He pleaded no contest to one charge of vehicular manslaughter March 5, and the other charges were dropped.
